Discretionary Justice :: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court.

Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. Discretionary Justice overviews the syste...

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1. Verfasser: Paik, Leslie
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Critical issues in crime and society.
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Zusammenfassung:Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. Discretionary Justice overviews the system, taking readers behind the scenes of the juvenile drug court. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, Leslie Paik explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are.
Beschreibung:About the Author.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (238 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
ISBN:9780813550978
0813550971
9780813550077
0813550076
9780813550060
0813550068
1283371278
9781283371278
9786613371270
6613371270

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