Abstract Drug courts provide what is often a final opportunity for justice-involved persons suffering from substance use disorders to avoid the criminogenic effects of incarceration and the severe health threats associated with substance use, including death. All persons must be provided the same opportunity to participate and succeed in these courts, regardless of their race, ethnicity, assigned gender at birth, age, gender identity and sexual orientation. Research evidence indicates that disparities in drug court processing based on demographic characteristics of participants may be widespread, contrary to most concepts of fairness, particularly those espoused by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP). The Equity and Inclusion Assessment Tool (EIAT) described in this article is designed to assist drug courts to determine whether equivalent access to drug court and equivalent retention in drug court exist among all ethnic, racial, and gender groups. This article describes how the EIAT emerged from earlier work by NCSC with a number of states to develop a performance measure that assessed Access and Fairness in drug courts by comparing the demographic characteristics of drug court referrals to drug court admissions, and admissions to exits.

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从绩效衡量到绩效评估工具：公平和包容性评估工具 (EIAT) 的概念开发

摘要 毒品法庭为患有物质使用障碍的司法相关人员提供了最后的机会，以避免监禁的犯罪影响和与物质使用相关的严重健康威胁，包括死亡。必须为所有人提供平等机会参与这些法庭并取得成功，无论其种族、民族、出生时的指定性别、年龄、性别认同和性取向如何。研究证据表明，基于参与者人口特征的毒品法庭处理差异可能很普遍，这与大多数公平概念背道而驰，尤其是全国毒品法庭专业人员协会 (NADCP) 所支持的那些概念。本文中描述的公平和包容性评估工具 (EIAT) 旨在帮助毒品法庭确定所有种族、种族和性别群体中是否存在对毒品法庭的同等准入和在毒品法庭的同等保留。本文描述了 EIAT 如何从 NCSC 与多个州的早期工作中产生，以通过比较毒品法庭转介到毒品法庭接纳和退出的接纳的人口特征来制定评估毒品法庭的准入和公平性的绩效衡量标准。