Program Profile: Baltimore City (Md.) Drug Treatment Court

This is a drug treatment court that seeks to reduce rearrests and reconvictions for drug-involved individuals with substantial criminal and drug addiction histories.

Evidence Rating: Effective | One study

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This is a drug treatment court that seeks to reduce rearrests and reconvictions for drug-involved individuals with substantial criminal and drug addiction histories. The program is rated Effective. Compared with the control group, program participants had a statistically significant fewer number of arrests at the 24-month and 15-year follow up, but not at the 36-month follow up. Participants also had a statistically significant fewer number of total convicted charges at the 15-year follow up.

An Effective rating implies that implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Modified: October 16, 2020

In 2011, Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court (BCDTC) received a final program rating of Promising based on a review of studies by Gottfredson and colleagues (2003; 2005). In 2020, CrimeSolutions conducted a re-review of the same studies and an additional study (Kearley and Gottfredson 2019), using the updated CrimeSolutions Program Scoring Instrument. This re-review resulted in a new final rating of Effective. Studies that are rated as Effective have strong evidence indicating that the program had strong effects on measured outcomes when implemented with fidelity.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 18+

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic

Geography: Urban

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting, Courts, Inpatient/Outpatient

Program Type: Alcohol and Drug Therapy/Treatment, Alternatives to Incarceration/Prison, Probation/Parole Services, Residential Treatment Center

Targeted Population: Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Offenders

Current Program Status: Active

Researcher:
Denise Gottfredson
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland

2220 LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
United States

Phone: 301.405.4717
Email