Are Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) promising or flirtatious?
Comparing & contrasting DTCs across the world Based on the known association between substance use and crime, there is a belief that to successfully reduce rates of drug related crime, drug abuse must be addressed and treated. This is the central philosophy of the most Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) – a drug diversion program developed upon the approach of ‘Breaking the Revolving Door’ between drug use and crime by addressing the latter problem through the joint venture among criminal justice and treatment systems and other related community partners. While DTCs were first introduced and propagated successfully in the US, as an alternative, to control the overwhelming criminal population and to substantially reduce the public expenditures required for dealing with such offenders, other jurisdictions (such as Australia, Canada, Scotland, England etc.) have also implemented in lesser scales with an endeavour to have unequivocally simulated results. The main objective of this paper is to co
