I like this book as it was writing by a man who went through a lot of rehabilitation because of his disease of alcohol and drug addiction. He turned his life around and became a very successful man. He has a lot of very well mad comments in his book and I have herd them over and over again. Like 10% of the offenders will take up 90% of the work, that they are never going make it.
2. "Drug court." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 29 Mar 2009, 17:56 UTC. 29 Mar 2009
This is a reference page that I found that gives some very good statistics to back up my argument that the drug court program is better that regular probation.
3. Listwan, Shelley Johnson Ph.D., Latessa, Edward J. Ph.D. The Kootenai and Ada County Drug Courts:Outcome Evaluation Findings, July 2005.
This article has a lot of information on the Idaho drug court and when they were started and also this gives a brief example of how successful they were over 6 years ago as compared to the statistics now days. It is written by the project director and principal investigator for the Center for Criminal Justice Research. They are both Ph.d’s.
4. National Association of Drug Court Professionals, web
This site has all the information I could want on drug court and there programs, from the training involved to the research on how and where they have been successful. To what they are currently doing that is new and other links that are related to this program.
5. Officer One. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
I will be using this mans ideas and his quotes at they go hand in hand with the one previously mentioned and also he works with drug court and probation and parolee. So he has an insight on both sides of the fence so to speak. Also I find taat he seems to be kind of the leader in this group of men working the probation side of drug court.
6. Officer Two. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
This man seems to have a very good insight to the workings of probation as far as who needs the most attention and who can be left alone and trusted to do the right thing so to speak. He seems to have the knack or experience of how to read people and trust or not to trust in what they are telling him. There seems to be a lot of reading peoples body language going on here.
7. Officer Three. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
He has the most information on the use of tracking devices and how and when they are going to be used. It would be nice to be able to track everyone who is in trouble but there is a little more to it then just clamping it on to a person’s ankle and then sitting back and watching them. There seems to be a legal reason that they don’t do it to just anyone. There has to be a reason like hurting them selves or someone else. Then there has to be Judge’s order also. This will come with recommendations from all of the other people involved like counselors, probation officers, and fellow piers.
8. Patterson Smith, John Augustus, the first probation officer, Montclair, New Jersey, National Probation Association, 1939
This is a book about the man who started it all. I truly loved this book and the accountings of this man and what he spent the last ten years of his life doing. HE documented all his cases and checked up on the people whom he represented and most of them did very well for them selves after John helped them. He also interviewed all of them and used his best judgments to pick out people who had a very good chance of cleaning up there act and going straight. This is a practice that is still used very much in the drug court program. They call it an intake interview.
9. State List of all Drug Courts. BJA Drug Court Clearinghouse. American University. Feburary 11th 2009
This has a listing of all the drug court programs up to date and how many of them are being planned too. There are 23 counties that have drug courts in Idaho and 37 branches off them. Like juvenile and mental health courts. There using the same ideas that they started with from drug court and branching them off from there.
10. Todd R. Clear, Places not Cases?: Re-thinking the Probation Focus1, The Howard Journal Vol 44 No 2. May 2005 ISSN 0265-5527, pp. 172–184.
This makes reference to John Augustus as being the first probation officer and tell a little about his story. This is where I got the idea of looking him up here at the library. Also this article has a lot of good information on the case work that is involved with any one probation officer and how his or her case work load can have a specific relationship to how mush attention can be given to any one client of offender. That this can have a big effect on the success rates for those offenders too. Goes on to give some good statistics form other sources.
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