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BRITISH DRUG COURTS YET TO PROVE THEIR WORTH
For Britain, US-inspired drug courts seemed a way to meld justice with treatment in to a more
powerful anti-crime force than looser liaisons. But this Scottish study found no detectable
anti-crime benefit; instead the main impact was to substantially raise costs. Together with
inconclusive studies in England, it leaves British drug courts looking like promising but expensive
innovations which have yet to prove their worth.
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