Description
Book SynopsisOverviews the system in US juvenile drug courts, taking readers behind the scenes. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, the author explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed.
Trade Review"Paik's extraordinary data illuminates the tension between therapy and punishment in juvenile drug courts. A terrific read!" -- Aaron Kupchik * author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear *
"This important, timely analysis reveals how meanings are constructed and bureaucratic decisions are created within a youth drug court." -- Madelaine Adelman * Associate Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
1. Inside the Black Box of Drug Court Justice
2. Setting and Methods
3. What Court Day Is He? Intercourt Variations
4. Building Accountability through Assessments of Noncompliance
5. Social Construction of Drug Test Results
6. It's Not Just His Probation, It's Mine: Parental Involvement in the Drug Court
7. Youth Trajectories in the Court
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
