Drug court

The court system, also known as the judiciary, is a structure that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. As such, there are multiple divisions and even more types of cases. The classifications of cases that are typically seen within the courts are: debt, contract, property, corporate, torts, criminal, public law, and family and estates. Over the years, different types of cases have appeared before the court, some most often than others. In Herbert M. Kritzer, Paul Brace,…

On the day of Friday October 21st, 2016, at the scene of Mays Landing Court House inside the Criminal Division court room, the Honorable Judge Damon G. Tyner, JSC presided. Throughout the day Judge Tyner observed both sentencing as well as motion cases. Before arriving to the court house I reflected on my expectations; I was expecting to see this large courtroom with ten to twelve rows and massive windows. I expected to hear no talking while the Judge spoke, I also expected most to be dressed…

Eric resisted arrest. This was Eric’s fourth time being hospitalized since 2008. For the past six months prior to Eric’s hospitalization, he was living in a motel with his girlfriend, who has a heroin use disorder. However, Eric denies using street drugs, only alcohol. He stated during our initial meeting he has his alcohol use under control at this time. I was informed by Eric’s father after he left the program for the day how Eric had in fact been picked up by the police the night before. The…

President Nixon declared a “war on drugs”, and increased the size of federal drug control agencies. To help combat the use of drugs, mandatory sentencing was implemented, which granted for a first time offense a minimum sentence of 5 years in a federal prison. By the Reagan presidency, the number of non-violent drug offenders imprisoned skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 400,000 by 1997 (“A Brief History of the Drug war”). As a result of the incarcerations many families have…

desserts”) based punishments. This was immediately followed by the “War on Drugs,” a movement in the 1980s which imposed harsh, mandatory sentences on drug offenders. The two-decade long change in criminal justice ideology and policies led the system to be plagued with an overwhelming number of non-violent offenders, many suffering from drug addiction. This led to an increase in prison populations nationwide. It was tougher drug sentencing in particular that caused…

different drug-related categories, prison expenditures, court expenditures, police force costs, and individual (the imprisoned user) income/productivity lost due to drug-related imprisonment. In all of these categories, strike police expenditures, the overall cost, quantified monetarily, decreased following the adoption of the NSFAD in 2001. Total prison expenditures associated with drug-related imprisonment was halved from 70 million Euros in 1999 to 35 million Euros in 2010. Total court…

and prisons were becoming crowded which creates a high levels of security measures. Rectifying the exsisting problems ,drug courts and sentencings law have flourished throughout the criminal justice systems. Drug courts are a systems occupied by treatment professionals and justices systems actors that combined their effort to provide more rapid sentencings , supervisions, drug treatments and ancillary services( Mears,pg 196). The intention was soley aimed to decrease crimes and hope to…

jails and prison, along with keeping criminals active in the community. John Smith being a newly adult, did not have the best childhood. He was expelled twice, he established drugs at a young age with and without his parents, and multiple charges. The charges were “Delivery of a controlled substance” and “Possession of drug Paraphernalia”. John has had negative out outcome of the juvenile system, and it ended up failing. I have been requested to produce a Pre-Sentence Investigation on Mr. Smith…

(i) Name, jurisdiction, link: Drug Diversion Program, Maricopa County, AZ https://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/JuvenileProbation/Probation/drugDiversion (ii) Main interventions description: The drug Diversion Program in Maricopa County in Arizona aims to reducing the drug presence and use among juveniles. By doing this, the program is giving these juveniles an alternative so they do not have to attend a formal court hearing or action. The drug diversions program aims to intervene in the…

Drug addiction is the root of crime in the United States, in a 1997 report 80% of State inmates reported past drug use reported by Chris Mumola (1999). If the criminal justice system could reduce the number of people abusing drugs, it would reduce not only drug related crimes, but would reduce the amount of all crimes. A reduction in crime would result in a safer and more productive society. Without changing how the criminal justice system views drug addiction we will never see a significant…