Erica J. Boyce is a Research Associate at NPC Research, primarily focusing on treatment court evaluation. She is the project director for New York’s Equal Justice and Opioid Intervention Court evaluation projects. Dr. Boyce also manages the BeST Assessment dissemination and reporting process for treatment courts nationwide. Recently, she is serving as the project director for a national harm reduction study in treatment courts, assisting the Wyoming Supreme Court with developing treatment court standards and a peer review process, conducting several process and outcome studies of drug, behavioral health, and veterans treatment courts, and co-led an evaluation of Colorado fentanyl legislation. Before joining NPC, Dr. Boyce was a Senior Court Research Associate at the National Center for State Courts. In this role, she was the project director for several projects, including a drug court technical assistance grant in Maryland, two Health and Human Services Elder Justice Guardianship grants, the Illinois Judicial Performance Evaluation, and Colorado’s District and Court of Appeals Judicial Officer workload assessment studies. Dr. Boyce assisted with developing various treatment court performance measures and helped court staff implement and manage related data collection processes and protocols. She also focused on jury management projects, including researching the effects of remote jury selection and trials, evaluating jury selection procedures to determine community representation, aiding courts converting from a 2-step summoning to 1-step process, and authoring a report regarding the effect of jury size.
Dr. Boyce has extensive experience designing and implementing applied research and program evaluation projects in the criminal legal, substance use prevention, and education fields. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies including quasi-experimental designs, surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus group facilitation. Dr. Boyce has delivered numerous presentations and trainings regarding research design and data interpretation to various audiences and has personally prepared partners to apply study results effectively.
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Mackin, J., Hunter, L., Boyce, E., Reinitz, D.
(September 2025)
Health Risk Prevention in Adult Treatment Courts
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publication | Drug Courts/ Problem-Solving Courts, Substance Abuse Treatment |