Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court opened in 1989 in Florida, close to 600 have been established throughout the United States. Although some observers have questioned their efficacy, no one until now has constructed an overall picture of the drug court phenomenon and its place in an American history of the social control of ...
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Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court opened in 1989 in Florida, close to 600 have been established throughout the United States. Although some observers have questioned their efficacy, no one until now has constructed an overall picture of the drug court phenomenon and its place in an American history of the social control of drugs. Here James Nolan examines not only how therapeutic strategies deviate from traditional judiciary proceedings, but also how these differences reflect changes afoot in American culture and conceptions of justice. Nolan draws upon extensive fieldwork to analyze a new type of courtroom drama in which the judge engages directly and regularly with the defendant-turned-client, lawyers play a reduced and less adversarial role, and treatment providers exert unprecedented influence in determining judicially imposed sanctions. The author considers the intended as well as unexpected consequences of therapeutic jurisprudence: for example, behavior undergoes a pathological reinterpretation, guilt is discredited, and the client's life story and ability to convince the judge of his or her willingness to change take on a new importance. Nolan finds that, fueled in part by the strength of therapeutic sensibilities in American culture, the drug court movement continues to expand and advances with it new understandings of the meaning and practice of justice.
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 254 p. Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology, 9. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 00051677 Type of material Book Personal name Nolan, James L., Jr. Main title Reinventing justice: the American drug court movement / James L. Nolan, Jr. Published/Created Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001. Description 254 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0691074526 (CL: alk. paper) LC classification KF3890. N65 2001 LC Subjects Drug courts--United States. Drug abuse--Treatment--Law and legislation--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index. Series Princeton studies in cultural sociology Dewey class no. 364.1/77 Geographic area code n-us---
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