The chosen Court is MENTAL HEALTH COURT. 3-4-page research paper AND 10-15 SLIDE PowerPoint (not including the title slide and reference slide)
Instruction
According to the text, the staggering costs of incarcerating increasing numbers of drug offenders, coupled with mounting evidence that imprisonment was not an effective approach to dealing with drug abuse and addiction, led policy makers to search for alternative solutions that would be cost-effective, politically palatable, and successful in reducing drug abuse and drug-related crime (425). As evidence mounted that drug treatment courts were both more cost-effective and more successful in reducing drug use and drug-related crime, states began to experiment with other specialized courts (425). This project requires students to: Choose one of the following specialized courts: Domestic violence courts Mental health courts Veteran’s courts Reentry courts Community courts Homeless courts Research the history and development of your selected “problem-solving court” Locate a County in Texas that is currently utilizing your selected specialized court and then evaluate their program. (You may need to reach out to someone from the identified county /specialized court to help with this program evaluation portion) Comprise a 3-4-page research paper and a PowerPoint presentation. The paper must be completed in MLA format, in-text citation and a reference page. The reference page does NOT count toward your 3-4 pages. The PowerPoint must include 10-15 slides (not including the title slide and reference slide).