MERIT, Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment Program
Subtitle: a survey of magistrates
By: Lynne A. Barnes, Patrizia Poletti
Contributors: Poletti, Patrizia; Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Series: Monograph series / Judicial Commission of New South Wales -- 24; Monograph series (Judicial Commission of New South Wales) -- no. 24
Publisher: Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Pre-trial procedure; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Drug addicts; Rehabilitation; Magistrates; Attitudes; Magistrates Early Referral into Treatment Program (N.S.W.)
Other titles: Survey of magistrates; MERIT :
Notes: "The Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) initiative is a new diversionary treatment program designed for alleged offenders who come before the Local Courts presenting with illicit drug problems ... MERIT is a voluntary program intended to operate pre-plea as part of the bail process."--p. vii.

"Printed March 2004"--Verso of title-page.

Bibliography: p. 59-60.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as of 14/05/2004: http://www.judcom.nsw.gov.au/monograph24/screenmerit.pdf.