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- Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
summary
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 assessed.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- 2. Setting and Methods
- pp. 17-27
- 7. Youth Trajectories in the Court
- pp. 128-171
- Appendix A: Methods
- pp. 183-189
- Appendix B: Concepts and Terms
- pp. 191-192
- Appendix C: Additional Resources
- pp. 193-195
- Bibliography
- pp. 209-216
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813550978
Related ISBN(s)
9780813550060
MARC Record
OCLC
769263112
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No