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Byron R. Titus, Ph.D. is a 2025 graduate of the PHD Program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University.

Byron R. Titus at his Dissertation Defense.

From L-R: Dr. Jennifer Raymond, Committee Chair, Dr. Nancy Boxill, Committee Member, Dr. Karen Baird, Committee Member

Dissertation Committee

  • Jennifer Raymond, PhD, Committee Chair
  • Nancy Boxill, PhD, Committee Member
  • Karen Baird, PhD, Committee Member

Keywords

Substance dependence, Alternatives to incarceration, Specialty Courts, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Drug court, Recovery Court

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

In 1989 Dade County, Florida, the so-called “War on Drugs” was in full swing. As a result, drug courts were created, acting as a diversion program for the many people subsequently caught up in this “war.” Since then, such “specialty courts” have proliferated across the planet. In some cases, local versions have been adopted to adjust to their unique population, culture, risk, and needs. This dissertation is a case study that reviews three Intensive Probation Supervision Programs (IPSP). These IPSPs identify a drug court in their state or country before it becomes a “certified drug court” (now more often referred to as a “recovery court”). In addition, the case study’s findings answer the question: How adequate is the drug court model to efficiently meet the current community’s needs, risks and challenges? During the past 34 years, drug courts have been challenged not only by demographic and socio-economical changes, but also by epidemics such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), crack, opioids and pandemics such as Corona virus (COVID-19), its multiple variants, and M-Pox (Monkeypox) to name a few. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu/) and OhioLink ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolimk.edu)

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Byron R. Titus

ORCID: #0009-0003-9227-637X

Byron R. Titus, born in Guatemala Central America is a social researcher from Massachusetts USA. Holds a Master of Management degree and a Professional Certifications on Organizational Development from Cambridge College, Cambridge MA. And a Professional Certification on Microelectronics and Semiconductor Science, from Northeastern University, Boston MA. Is Board Certified Human Service Practitioner by the Center for Credentialing and Education, Greensboro North Carolina. USA. Has received professional training from Harvard Medical School, Brown University, Northeastern University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and other academic institutions. Byron R. Titus as has cofounded and led diversion programs such as The Webster Regional Resource (with Worcester County Sheriff’s Lewis Evangelidis), a Multidisciplinary evidence-based model, developed to assist individuals’ rehabilitation and community reintegration. Designed around the whole community’s participation and support, it Incorporates clinical and academic collaboration with local, State, and or Federal agencies. Byron R. Titus has demonstrable international experience working with the adult incarcerated and transitional population. He lectures locally and internationally about Rehabilitation and Community reintegration methodology and its programs. Has received numerous distinctions: “Distinguished Bostonian” from the City of Boston, (Boston, MA. 2011), Premio Internacional “Eslabón de la Cadena de la Paz” (Talavera de la Reina, Castilla La Mancha, España 2021), “Croix de Honneur” -Silver, European Police (EUROPOL, Bruselas Bélgica, 2022), and other. Publishes regularly in gAZeta (an electronic Guatemalan magazine) and has published in ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University.

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