| This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Specialized court article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
| Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
 | This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
 | This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Wiki Education assignment: Senior Seminar edit
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2023 and 28 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Danielmagrath (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Acsieling (talk) 18:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Specialized Court Complete revision edit
Hello, I believe that this page should be completely revised for several reasons. I am proposing that the new article title should be changed to Specialty Court in the United States. The reason for this is because the article talks about specialized courts in several countries, but does not go into much depth on the different types of specialized courts as much it could. In the United States, Specialty court is the term that is used more often than specialized courts. There are problems with the structure of the article as well as references and citations. The intro describes it as limited-subject courts but should include that there are professionals trained in the specific subject-matter that are involved in the process and outcomes of specialty court. The list of specialty courts did not include multiple that should be included. There should be more references and they should also be cited in APA format. I would suggest not using news articles as references. I have written a proposed outline for the complete revision. I am willing to write about half of the outline for the new revision of the article I also have many reputable references from Southwest Minnesota State University's library databases that could be added to the references and used in the revision.
Introduction
A. Define specialty court
B. Specialty court’s goal and outcomes
C. Traditional court differences from specialty court
D. Describe specialty court's plans to achieve those goals/trained staff on specific subjects in each area.
II. List the different types of specialty courts in alphabetical order
A. General list of what kinds of specialized courts exist with links to possible other Wikipedia links.
III. General goal/outcome description of each specific type of specialty court/Alphabetical order
A. Describe general specialized court structure
B. Describe specifically trained staff with each court
C. Describe general criteria needed to be admitted to this type of court
D. Repeat for each court
IV. History
A. Talk about brief history of specialty courts in general including where and when they were created
V. Summary of Modern Research in a neutral tone
A. Talk about how research is or is not reliable
B. Talk about where research is headed and why. Danielmagrath (talk) 16:14, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
References edit
This is a list of references that other people can use to edit and add to this article if needed. They are mainly peer-reviewed academic articles that you should be able to find by the citations. They are also links to reliable government websites.
Anspach, D. F., Ferguson, A. S., & Collom, V. (2005). Evaluation of Program Completion and Rearrest Rates across Four Drug Court Programs. Drug Court Review, 5(1), 61–68.
Belenko, S., Dennis, M., Hiller, M., Mackin, J., Cain, C., Weiland, D., . . . Kagan, R. (2022). The impact of juvenile drug treatment courts on substance use, mental health, and recidivism: Results from a multisite experimental evaluation. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research
Brown, R. (2011). Drug court effectiveness: A matched cohort study in the dane county drug treatment court. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 50(4), 191-201.
Carey, M. T., & Luo, F. (2020). Intended and unintended benefits of specialty courts: results from a Texas DWI court. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 59(5), 247–266.
Cook, M. C., Barnert, E., Ijadi-Maghsoodi, R., Ports, K., & Bath, E. (2018). Exploring mental health and substance use treatment needs of commercially sexually exploited youth participating in a specialty juvenile court. Behavioral Medicine, 44(3), 242-249.
Sheeran, A., Knoche, V. A., & Freiburger, T. L. (2022). Identifying predictors of drug court graduation: findings from an evaluation of the Milwaukee County Adult Drug Treatment Court. Criminal Justice Studies, 35(1), 57–73.
Sloan,John J., I.,II, Smykla, J. O., & Rush, J. P. (2004). Do juvenile drug courts reduce recidivism?: Outcomes of drug court and an adolescent substance abuse program. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 29(1), 95-115.
https://www.mncourts.gov/Documents/5/Public/Drug_Court/MCDC%20Documents/CMNPR_Policy_12-12.pdf
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/overview-drug-courts
Danielmagrath (talk) 01:14, 22 April 2023 (UTC)