Predictors of engagement in court-mandated treatment: Findings at the brooklyn treatment court, 1996-2000

Drug Courts in Operation: Current Research

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 87-124

  Rempel, Michael ^a   Destefano, Christine Depies ^a  

^a Center for Court Innovation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Drug court; Ethnicity; Legal coercion; Race; Recidivism; Social isolation; Socioeconomic status; Substance abuse history; Treatment duration; Treatment engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85083226671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315786001-6     Document Type: Chapter

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