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Drugnews Archive
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Community Audits and Initiatives Project
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 "In identifying target populations, drug courts need to be
sensitive to class and race bias. Unless care is taken, diversion
courts may tend disproportionately to work with white and
middle-class substance abusers."
Source: Gebelein, Richard S., National Institute of Justice,
"The Rebirth of Rehabilitation: Promise and Perils of Drug Courts"
(Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, May 2000), p. 5.
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