Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Assistant Member, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2019 Apr;111(2):134-147. doi: 10.1016/j.jnma.2018.10.007. Epub 2018 Nov 6.
Drug courts, therapeutic justice programs for individuals charged with drug offenses, have sub-optimal completion rates. The Courtroom Behavior Checklist (CRBCL), an assessment that quantifies readiness for drug court and drug court behaviors, was developed to predict female offenders who may be at-risk for non-compliance and termination. Data derived from 264 mainly urban women recruited from a Municipal Drug Court System in St. Louis, MO, were used to evaluate the association between substance use, victimization, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, and observed drug court behaviors. Results showed that women who reported recent substance use or were categorized as at risk for HIV/AIDS were significantly more likely to have scores indicative of unfavorable drug court behaviors, while women who experienced victimization had scores indicative of favorable drug court behaviors. Other factors significantly associated with unfavorable drug court behaviors included greater lifetime arrests, lower education, and being less religious or spiritual. Our findings suggest that the CRBCL may have added utility in identifying women in drug court with recent substance use and risky sexual behaviors. However, further studies on other samples of offenders are needed to support these findings.
药物法庭，即针对毒品犯罪指控的个人的治疗性司法项目，其完成率不理想。法庭行为检查表（CRBCL）是一种评估药物法庭和药物法庭行为准备情况的工具，用于预测可能不符合要求和被终止的女性罪犯。该数据来自于密苏里州圣路易斯市的一个市药物法庭系统招募的 264 名主要为城市女性，用于评估物质使用、受害、艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险行为与观察到的药物法庭行为之间的关联。结果表明，报告最近物质使用或被归类为艾滋病毒/艾滋病高风险的女性更有可能出现不利的药物法庭行为评分，而经历过受害的女性则具有有利的药物法庭行为评分。与不利的药物法庭行为显著相关的其他因素包括更多的终身逮捕、更低的教育水平以及较少的宗教或精神信仰。我们的研究结果表明，CRBCL 可能有助于识别药物法庭中近期有物质使用和高风险性行为的女性。然而，需要对其他罪犯样本进行进一步的研究来支持这些发现。
