Improving Drug Courts: A Preliminary Study

Since the early 1980s, specialized problem-solving courts known as drug emerged in United States a response to backlog of and alcohol-related cases plaguing U.S. criminal justice system. In few decades, with seeming success court helping AOD defendants achieve sobriety while reducing recidivism, model has achieved international prominence well. This paper discusses pilot study which seeks analyze feasibility connecting website, drughelp.care, developed at host institution co-authors, everyday operations local courts. Talcott Parsons’ AGIL schema is utilized conceptual template for organizing our thinking about how website could improve services administrators clients according unique functional elements court.