Current Research Projects

  • Bureau of Justice Assistance funded process evaluation of the Marion County (FL) Diversion Drug Court (Award Number: 2020-DC-BX-0148) (10/1/2020-9/30/2023)

In this project, Elizabeth Hartsell (Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University), McKenzie Jossie (Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University) and I collected data on the delivery of the Marion County Diversion Drug Court. Data collection efforts included:  observations of staff case reviews and drug court sessions, interviews with clients and staff, and analysis of official records.  We have another grant proposal pending at BJA and are working on additional articles from this effort.

Related Publications

Hartsell, Elizabeth N.,* McKenzie L. Jossie,* and Jodi Lane. (2024). “‘People, Places, and Things’: Understanding the Context of Participants’ Lives in a Diversion Drug Court.” Criminal Justice & Behavior 51/10: 1511-1529.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241257606

Hartsell, Elizabeth N.*, & Jodi Lane. (2024).  “Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 49: 304-327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-023-09749-1

Hartsell, Elizabeth, Jodi Lane, and Saman Valiani.  (2023). “Life Events and Other Stressors of Diversion Drug Court Participants: An Exploratory Analysis of Race and Gender Differences.” Drug Court Review (Fall): 1-23. https://dcr.ndcrc.org/index.php/dcr

Hartsell, Elizabeth and Jodi Lane. (2022). “Initial Lessons Learned During a Remote Drug Court Evaluation During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Crime and Justice 45(5): 627-645.  Published online March 6, 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2022.2047100

  • Fear of Crime Survey (collected via MTurk in 2021)

In this project, I am examining predictors of fear of crime in the current political and social landscape.