Publications

Problem Solving Courts

JMI Adult Drug Court Case Studies final report Dec 2003 - This report provides profiles of three adult drug courts: Hennepin County Drug Court in Minneapolis, MN, the South County Drug Court in San Diego, CA, and the St. Mary Parish Drug in St. Mary Parish, LA, which represent different legal and socioeconomic milieus, local politics, and geography. The profiles highlight their efforts to institutionalize their drug courts, innovative aspects of their operations, the challenges they have faced. Specifically, the report: 1) identifies critical community linkages that are valuable in the institutionalization process; 2) highlights how to leveraged scarce resources; 3) shows how the heightened accountability and standards of drug court movement has raised the bar for performance for the judiciary in general; and 4) demonstrates how drug courts have increased the community’s trust and confidence in the judiciary and contributed to public safety.

JMI Institutionalizing Drug Courts Sept 2001 - This report outlines the principal themes and ideas that emerged from a focus group meeting on Institutionalizing Drug Courts that was held in Denver, Colorado, in May 2000 to draw on the experience and expertise of 35 participants drawn from a broad range of courts and other institutions and organizations involved in or affected by the work of drug courts. The focus group meeting was convened by The Justice Management Institute in cooperation with the Drug Courts Program Office of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Seattle Community Court: Start-Up and Implementation

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