Goals
The goals of drug courts are
- Enhancing community safety and the quality of life for citizens;
- Reducing recidivism;
- Reducing substance abuse;
- Increasing the personal, familial, and societal accountability of drug offenders;
- Restoring drug offenders to being productive, law-abiding, and tax-paying citizens;
- Promoting effective interaction and use of resources among criminal justice and community agencies;
- Reducing the costs of incarceration; and
- Improving the efficiency of the criminal justice system by enacting an effective methodology.