Serial offending: evaluation of drugs courts.

摘要

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has announced that drug-treatment courts work.1 Evaluations from three continents consistently showed that drugs courts effectively reduce recidivism and underlying addiction problems of drug-abusing offenders, but by how much is not revealed. Instead, testimonials to success run along such lines as: "Only 11-6% of those who complete the drug court programme run into trouble again with the law".