Description
Book SynopsisDrug courts offer offenders an intensive court-based treatment program as an alternative to the normal adjudication process. Begun in 1989, they have since spread dramatically throughout the United States. In this interdisciplinary examination of the expanding movement, a distinguished panel of legal practitioners and academics offers theoretical assessments and on-site empirical analyses of the workings of various courts in the United States, along with detailed comparisons and contrasts with related developments in Britain. Practitioners, politicians, and academics alike acknowledge the profound impact drug courts have had on the American criminal justice system. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors to this volume seek to make sense of this important judicial innovation. While addressing a range of questions, Drug Courts also aims to achieve a careful balance between focused empirical studies and broader theoretical analyses of the same phenomenon. The
Table of Contents
I: Empirical Explorations; 1: Theory and Practice in the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court; 2: Systemic Constraints on the Implementation of a Northeastern Drug Court; 3: West Coast Drug Courts: Getting Offenders Morally Involved in the Criminal Justice Process; 4: The Denver Drug Court and Its Unintended Consequences; 5: Separated by an Uncommon Law: Drug Courts in Great Britain and America; II: Theoretical Assessments; 6: The Adversary System and Attorney Role in the Drug Treatment Court Movement; 7: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Drug Treatment Courts: Integrating Law and Science; 8: Drug Treatment Courts: A Traditional Perspective; 9: The Drug Court Movement: An Analysis of Tacit Assumptions; 10: Drug Control and the Ascendancy of Britain’s Therapeutic Culture; 11: Drug Courts, the Judge, and the Rehabilitative Ideal
