Discretionary justice
Subtitle: looking inside a juvenile drug court
By: Leslie Paik
Series: Critical issues in crime and society
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813550060; 9780813550077
Subjects: Juvenile courts; Drug courts; Drug abuse; Law and legislation; Youth; Treatment; Drug use; Juvenile delinquents; Rehabilitation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inside the black box of drug court justice; title: Setting and methods; title: What court day is he?; title: intercourt variations; title: Building accountability through assessments of noncompliance; title: Social construction of drug test results; title: It's not just his probation, it's mine: parental involvement in the drug court; title: Youth trajectories in the court; title: (In)justice of discretion; title: drug courts as therapeutic punishment and therapeutic justice.