The use of therapeutic jurisprudence in the creation and management of drug treatment courts is one example of a positive response to a community crime problem. The measurement of drug treatment court through the use of qualitative analysis rather than quantitative analysis facilitates a greater understanding of the success of such programs and the importance of measuring for more than just the percentage of graduates. An assessment of quantitative analysis of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and qualitative analysis of specialized drug treatments courts provides evidence where therapeutic jurisprudence methodology had benefited the community. Moving forward, the risk-needs-responsivity model and therapeutic jurisprudence provide the ability for the police to evolve a greater positive role in society.
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The development of meta-analytical techniques played a significant role in understanding the positive effects of implementing the RNR model for rehabilitation, reduced recidivism and thus crime prevention. Leading up to 1990, there had been some 500 large empirical studies conducted in relation to offender treatment. In 1989, one meta-analysis, reviewed over 400 treatment studies of juveniles delinquents, yielding 443 effect size estimates, which is a way of quantifying the size of the difference between two groups by placing the emphasis on the most important aspect of an intervention - the size of the effect - rather than its statistical