NCJ Number
247215
Date Published
2013
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This is the Program Performance Report (April-June 2012) for grants intended for the implementation of new drug courts under the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program (ADC Program) administered by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which is intended to "build and/or expand drug court capacity at the State, local, and tribal levels to reduce crime and substance abuse among high-risk, high-need offenders."
Abstract
Implementation grants were awarded to jurisdictions that have completed a substantial amount of planning and are ready to implement a drug court. Grantees may fund court operations, offender supervision, and various other service treatment and recovery support services. The data presented in this report were entered into the Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) for April-June 2012. The PMT indicated that the demographic profile across screened candidates, eligible candidates, and admitted participants was inconsistent. White drug court candidates admitted as participants during this reporting period constituted a larger proportion of all candidates than were screened (71 percent vs. 59 percent). In addition, Black or African-American candidates composed about 24 percent of all screened candidates, but represented less than 10 percent of those admitted to the drug court programs. The PMT also indicates that for this quarter, 49 percent of participants who exited the drug court programs did so through successful graduation. BJA's target graduation rate was 48 percent; however, among drug court participants in tribal areas, the successful completion rate was low (15 percent). Another key finding was that just over half of drug court participants unsuccessfully left the program in the first 6 months of participation. Approximately 53 percent of eligible candidates refused to enter the drug court programs. 5 tables and 1 figure