line chart showing the number of specialty courts in the United States from 1989 to 2024

Data Source: National Treatment Court Resource Center's Painting the Current Picture 2025 and Treatment Courts Across the United States (2024 data). Dotted orange lines indicate imputed estimates for years for which these sources provided no data (i.e., 2015-2018 and 2022-2023). (Graph: Leah Wang, 2026)

This graph originally appeared in Specialty courts: A disappointing form of diversion.

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