The effectiveness of drug courts to decrease recidivism has been questioned in relation to family, adult and juvenile drug courts; however, when looking at the decrease of recidivism the effectiveness on countless lives it is proven that it works. Hickman (2010) says [stated]:
As the world is increasingly drawn together through technology ease of travel (for some), and global economic integration, people are increasingly attempting to address global problems, such as poverty, violence, disease, terrorism, intolerance, climate change, and health issues, as global community. The idea that global change can be accomplished when humans work together to address large-scale problems that affect the quality of life for people across nations… …show more content…
(Young 2007 p. 139)
Children from homes where drug abuse is present are at risk for being removed from the home and placed in the care of Social Services. This example leads to some of the children turning to drugs themselves to help ease the pain and solve the problems
According to Carter (2011), “Research has shown that juvenile drug courts continue to be popular and effective alternatives to other juvenile court initiatives in terms of decreasing juvenile recidivism” (p. 181) therefore, working together there can be change around the world. South Dakota is looking at using alternative methods other than putting children in detention for violating the terms of probation by using drugs. Although South Dakota has not implemented Juvenile Drug Courts they are now using adult drug court systems and once those began to take off and show success they will implement Juvenile Drug …show more content…
From this eighty five percent many of them state that they have committed other crimes to get money to support their drug problems. When individuals get incarcerated for crimes they get placed in a community jail or in a state penitentiary when they are incarcerated they serve their time do not get the proper treatment that is needed to assist with the drug abuse. They are then placed back into the community where they continue to commit crimes because they were not given the proper treatment. Recidivism rates vary by state however; most of prisoners nationwide are again incarcerated within three years (Norman 2015).
A 2003 study revealed that youth who attended drug court programs have a 16.4% recidivism rate compared to 43.5% with just traditional court hearings (Maring, 2006). The problem with this is that in 2001 there was only about 167 Juvenile Drug Courts were functioning thorough the United States. With 113 drug courts in the planning stages however, there are only forty six states including the District of Colombia and Guam using the Juvenile Drug Court Program with nearly twelve thousand five hundred youth involved the numbers grew in 2006 to about 430 juvenile drug courts being utilized (Cooper
As the world is increasingly drawn together through technology ease of travel (for some), and global economic integration, people are increasingly attempting to address global problems, such as poverty, violence, disease, terrorism, intolerance, climate change, and health issues, as global community. The idea that global change can be accomplished when humans work together to address large-scale problems that affect the quality of life for people across nations… …show more content…
(Young 2007 p. 139)
Children from homes where drug abuse is present are at risk for being removed from the home and placed in the care of Social Services. This example leads to some of the children turning to drugs themselves to help ease the pain and solve the problems
According to Carter (2011), “Research has shown that juvenile drug courts continue to be popular and effective alternatives to other juvenile court initiatives in terms of decreasing juvenile recidivism” (p. 181) therefore, working together there can be change around the world. South Dakota is looking at using alternative methods other than putting children in detention for violating the terms of probation by using drugs. Although South Dakota has not implemented Juvenile Drug Courts they are now using adult drug court systems and once those began to take off and show success they will implement Juvenile Drug …show more content…
From this eighty five percent many of them state that they have committed other crimes to get money to support their drug problems. When individuals get incarcerated for crimes they get placed in a community jail or in a state penitentiary when they are incarcerated they serve their time do not get the proper treatment that is needed to assist with the drug abuse. They are then placed back into the community where they continue to commit crimes because they were not given the proper treatment. Recidivism rates vary by state however; most of prisoners nationwide are again incarcerated within three years (Norman 2015).
A 2003 study revealed that youth who attended drug court programs have a 16.4% recidivism rate compared to 43.5% with just traditional court hearings (Maring, 2006). The problem with this is that in 2001 there was only about 167 Juvenile Drug Courts were functioning thorough the United States. With 113 drug courts in the planning stages however, there are only forty six states including the District of Colombia and Guam using the Juvenile Drug Court Program with nearly twelve thousand five hundred youth involved the numbers grew in 2006 to about 430 juvenile drug courts being utilized (Cooper