Discretionary Justice : Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court /
Paik, Leslie
Discretionary Justice : Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court / Leslie Paik. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Critical Issues in Crime and Society .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Inside the Black Box of Drug Court Justice -- Chapter 2. Setting and Methods -- Chapter 3. What Court Day Is He? Intercourt Variations -- Chapter 4. Building Accountability through Assessments of Noncompliance -- Chapter 5. Social Construction of Drug Test Results -- Chapter 6. It’s Not Just His Probation, It’s Mine: Parental Involvement in the Drug Court -- Chapter 7. Youth Trajectories in the Court -- Chapter 8. The (In)justice of Discretion: Drug Courts as Therapeutic Punishment and Therapeutic Justice -- Appendix A. Methods -- Appendix B. Concepts and Terms -- Appendix C. Additional Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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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. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth drug offenders into addiction treatment instead of long-term incarceration. 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. Using the concept of "workability," Paik demonstrates how compliance, and what is seen by staff as "noncompliance," are the constructed results of staff decisions, fluctuating budgets, and sometimes questionable drug test results. While these courts largely focus on holding youths responsible for their actions, this book underscores the social factors that shape how staff members view progress in the court. Paik also emphasizes the perspectives of children and parents. Given the growing emphasis on individual responsibility in other settings, such as schools and public welfare agencies, Paik's findings are relevant outside the juvenile justice system.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813550060 9780813550978
10.36019/9780813550978 doi
Drug abuse--Treatment--Law and legislation--California.
Drug courts--California.
Juvenile courts--California.
Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--California.
Youth--Drug use--California.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
KFC1196 / .P35 2011eb
345.794 02770269
Discretionary Justice : Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court / Leslie Paik. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Critical Issues in Crime and Society .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Inside the Black Box of Drug Court Justice -- Chapter 2. Setting and Methods -- Chapter 3. What Court Day Is He? Intercourt Variations -- Chapter 4. Building Accountability through Assessments of Noncompliance -- Chapter 5. Social Construction of Drug Test Results -- Chapter 6. It’s Not Just His Probation, It’s Mine: Parental Involvement in the Drug Court -- Chapter 7. Youth Trajectories in the Court -- Chapter 8. The (In)justice of Discretion: Drug Courts as Therapeutic Punishment and Therapeutic Justice -- Appendix A. Methods -- Appendix B. Concepts and Terms -- Appendix C. Additional Resources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth drug offenders into addiction treatment instead of long-term incarceration. 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. Using the concept of "workability," Paik demonstrates how compliance, and what is seen by staff as "noncompliance," are the constructed results of staff decisions, fluctuating budgets, and sometimes questionable drug test results. While these courts largely focus on holding youths responsible for their actions, this book underscores the social factors that shape how staff members view progress in the court. Paik also emphasizes the perspectives of children and parents. Given the growing emphasis on individual responsibility in other settings, such as schools and public welfare agencies, Paik's findings are relevant outside the juvenile justice system.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813550060 9780813550978
10.36019/9780813550978 doi
Drug abuse--Treatment--Law and legislation--California.
Drug courts--California.
Juvenile courts--California.
Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--California.
Youth--Drug use--California.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
KFC1196 / .P35 2011eb
345.794 02770269