Abstract

Collaboration across diverse agencies is a foundational attribute of drug courts. It requires individuals and agencies to build trust, share resources and power, as well as maintain consistent participation to produce positive criminal justice interested outcomes. As past criminal justice and social service research has shown, the requirement to collaborate can produce negative impacts when criminal justice professionals are conflicted and required to still carry out their traditional adverse roles and responsibilities. To date, no empirical research has systemically evaluated the advantages and drawbacks of participation in a collaborative environment in the drug court model, and what elements combine to create stronger collaborative outcomes. By using a national sample and set of validated measures of professional benefits and drawbacks, we found that certain variables, such as level of training, gender and propensity/interest towards collaboration were predictive of greater professional benefits. Structural Regression Analysis (SRA) and Monte Carlo Simulation were utilized in the current study, creating empirical support for internal and external validity of the scales.

摘要

跨不同机构的合作是毒品法庭的基本属性。它要求个人和机构建立信任，共享资源和权力，并保持一致的参与以产生积极的刑事司法利益结果。正如过去的刑事司法和社会服务研究表明的那样，当刑事司法从业人员发生冲突并且被要求仍然履行其传统的不利角色和职责时，合作的需求会产生负面影响。迄今为止，还没有任何实证研究系统地评估参与毒品法庭模型中的协作环境的利弊，以及哪些要素相结合才能产生更强的协作成果。通过使用国家样本和一套经过验证的专业利弊衡量方法，我们发现某些变量，例如培训水平，性别和对合作的倾向/兴趣，可以预测出更大的职业收益。在当前研究中使用了结构回归分析（SRA）和蒙特卡洛模拟，为量表的内部和外部有效性提供了经验支持。