Discretionary Justice (Critical Issues in Crime and Society): Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court - Softcover

Leslie Paik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813550076 ISBN 13: 9780813550077

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Discretionary Justice Her book manuscript, entitled Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court is an intensive case study of staff decision-making practices in a juvenile drug court in southern California. Use of juvenile drug courts is on the rise in the US, as a result of a favorable political climate and a professional endorsement of the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. These efforts aim to divert nonviolent youth drug users into drug treatment instead of long-term incarceration. The author proposes to look at what kind of effects this "therapeutic jurisprudence movement" has on the process of recovery of program participants...

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Review:

"Paik's extraordinary data illuminates the tension between therapy and punishment in juvenile drug courts. A terrific read!"--Aaron Kupchik "author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear "

"This important, timely analysis reveals how meanings are constructed and bureaucratic decisions are created within a youth drug court."--Madelaine Adelman "Associate Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University "

About the Author:

LESLIE PAIK is an assistant professor of sociology at The City College, City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0813550076
• ISBN 13: 9780813550077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272