Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse (Urban Institute Press) - Softcover

Jeffrey A. Butts is director of the Urban Institute’s Program on Youth Justice and a senior research associate in the Justice Policy Center. In addition to the National Evaluation of Juvenile Drug Courts, he has directed Urban Institute projects on teen courts and the methods used to forecast bed space in juvenile detention and corrections facilities. He is currently directing the national evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s "Reclaiming Futures" program, an effort to improve the coordination of services for drug-involved juvenile offenders. Before joining the Urban Institute in 1997, Dr. Butts was a senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

John Roman is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, where his work focuses on evaluating innovative criminal justice policies and programs. He was the principal investigator for a national study of drug court recidivism rates, and has worked on a number of evaluations of drug treatment courts throughout the United States. Mr. Roman recently prepared a systematic review of existing drug court research for the Campbell Collaboration’s Crime and Justice Group, and he has participated in developing curricula for the National Drug Court Institute’s research and evaluation workshops.

"...[A] thorough and provocative introduction to these programs as well as a compelling plan for a future research agenda." -- Kate Kraft, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"...[T]he most comprehensive work to date on the subject....An invaluable resource...." -- Dr. Donna L. Boone, President, Congress of State Drug Court Associations and Director, National Program for Therapeutic Courts, William and Mary Law School

"Anyone interested in the idea of problem-solving justice should read this book." -- Greg Berman, Director, Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY

"This is the volume that policy makers and practitioners need to read before jumping on the [juvenile drug court] bandwagon." -- Peter Reuter, Professor, School of Public Policy and Department of Criminology Director, Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy, University of Maryland