Abstract Variations of problem-solving court programs have been created to address a wide variety of offense-related problems, such as drug addiction, mental health, domestic violence, homelessness, and many others. Yet there is little knowledge as to whether this model is equally effective across these many versions of the model. This study uses data from the 2012 Census of Problem-Solving Courts to assess whether there is variation in the proportion of successful program completions across program types. Additionally, this study examined what program-level characteristics are associated with increased successful program completions. The findings of this study suggest that, while there is some variation in program success across program types, there is also substantial variation within types of programs. That is, not one type of problem-solving court program is more effective than any other. The results of this study also found that the programs that offer a larger variety of services are likely to have higher levels of successful program completions. Future research should follow these preliminary findings by examining variations in other outcomes measures of success.

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对解决问题的法院类型成功完成计划的评估

摘要为解决各种与犯罪有关的问题，例如吸毒，心理健康，家庭暴力，无家可归等，已经创建了各种解决问题的法院计划。然而，关于该模型在模型的许多版本中是否同样有效的知识很少。这项研究使用了2012年解决问题法院人口普查的数据来评估不同计划类型的成功计划完成比例是否存在差异。此外，这项研究检查了哪些程序级别的特征与成功完成程序的增加有关。这项研究的结果表明，尽管跨程序类型的程序成功有一些差异，但各程序类型之间也有很大差异。那是，解决问题的法庭程序中，没有一种方法比其他方法更有效。这项研究的结果还发现，提供更多服务的程序可能成功完成程序的级别更高。未来的研究应通过检查其他成功结果指标的变化来遵循这些初步发现。