America's drug courts: A new development in criminal justice

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1996, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 718-721

  Bean, Philip ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (12)

1. For a short discussion on some of the basic features of Drug Courts see, Bean P.T. "America's Drug Courts" The Times, June 11, 1996.
2. A report of an earlier visit to America's Drug Courts in 1994 is given in, Bean P.T. "Drug Courts U.S.A." Druglink, May/June 1995, pp. 13-14.
3. Peters R.H. Evaluating Drug Court Pragrammes: an overview of issues and alternative strategies (American University Publications 1995).
4. see Peters R.H. above, n. 3.
5. see Bean P.T. above, n. 1.
6. One of the best reported studies on the Miami Drug Court is found in Goldkamp J.S. and Weiland D. Assessing the impact of Dade County's felony drug court (National Institute of Justice, 1993).
7. see Balenko S. and Dumanovsky T. Special Drug Courts (Program Brief) (U.S. Department of Justice, 1993) for a summary on the key features which led to Drug Court in the U.S.A.
8. Drug Courts: Information on a new approach to address drug-related crime (General Accounting Office, 1995) (Briefing Report to the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives.)
9. see particularly Peters R.H. above, n. 3. and Inciardi J, McBride D.C. and Rivers J.E. Drug Control and the Courts (Sage Publications, 1996).
10. Finn P. and Newlyn A.K. Miami's Drug Court - a different approach (U.S. Department of Justice, 1993).
11. see Finn P. and Newlyn A.K. 1993 above, n. 10, and Goldkamp J.S. and Weiland D. 1993 above, n. 6.
12. see Peters R.H. above, n. 3.