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Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. General Accounting Office, [2002] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)53894887 Subject: Drug courts -- United States. Excerpt: ... DCPO has had other difficulties managing its data collection effort. Specifically, ( 1 ) DCPO inadvertently instructed drug court program grantees not to respond to questions about program participants ' criminal recidivism while in the program; ( 2 ) confusion existed between DCPO and its contractor, assigned responsibility for the semiannual data collection effort, over who would administer DCPO's data collection survey during various reporting periods; and ( 3 ) some grantees were using different versions of DOJ's survey instruments to respond to the semiannual data collection reporting requirement. The overall success of a drug court programs is dependent on whether DCPO Eliminated Post-Program defendants in the program stay off drugs and do not commit more crimes Data from Its Data Collection when they complete the program. In our 1997 report we recommended that Effort drug court programs funded by discretionary grants administered by DOJ collect and maintain follow-up data on program participants ' criminal recidivism and, to the extent feasible, follow-up data on drug use relapse. In 1998, DCPO required its implementation and enhancement grantees to collect and provide performance and outcome data on program participants, including data on participants ' criminal recidivism and substance abuse relapse after they have left the program. However, in 2000, DCPO revised its survey and eliminated the questions that were intended to collect post-program outcome data. The DCPO Director said that DCPO's decision was based on, among other things, drug court program grantees indicating that they were not able to provide post-program outcome data and that they lacked sufficient resources to collect such data. DCPO, however, was unable to produce specific evidence from grantees ( i.e., written correspondence
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