Improving psychosocial outcomes among justice-involved individuals in drug treatment courts
Improving psychosocial outcomes among justice-involved individuals in drug treatment courts
- Tri Keah Henry
- Publication Date
2026 - Website
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Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) have been designed as an alternative to incarceration, emphasizing therapeutic treatment over criminalization. Evaluations of DTCs often focus on graduation and recidivism outcomes as key measures of program success. Notably, many of these programs also underscore growth in prosocial outcomes (e.g. risk level, education, and employment), not only as an indicator of participant success generally, but as a requirement for program completion. However, little research has assessed the extent to which DTC participants’ psychosocial outcomes improve as a result of program participation. Moreover, few studies examine the extent to which improvement among these outcomes impacts future criminal justice involvement. The current study explores these relatively understudied DTC outcomes using data from a mid-sized midwestern jurisdiction. Findings suggest individual and cumulative improvement across psychosocial domains reduces the likelihood of recidivism.
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