Drug courts in theory and in practice
By: James L. Nolan, Jr., editor.
Contributors: Nolan, James L., Jr.
Series: Social problems and social issues
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Drug courts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Empirical explorations. Theory and practice in the Baltimore City Drug Court / William D. McColl; title: Systemic constraints on the implementation of a northeastern drug court / Elaine M. Wolf; title: West coast drug courts : getting offenders morally involved in the criminal justice process / Sara Steen; title: The Denver Drug Court and its unintended consequences / Morris B. Hoffman; title: Separated by an uncommon law : drug courts in Great Britain and America / James L. Nolan, Jr.; title: pt. 2. Theoretical assessments. The adversary system and attorney role in the drug treatment court movement / Richard C. Boldt; title: Therapeutic jurisprudence and drug treatment courts : integrating law and science / John Terrence A. Rosenthal; title: Drug treatment courts : a traditional perspective / Susan Meld Shell; title: The drug court movement : an analysis of tacit assumptions / James J. Chriss; title: Drug control and the ascendancy of Britain's therapeutic culture / Frank Furedi; title: Drug courts, the judge, and the rehabilitative ideal / Philip Bean.