Drug courts in theory and in practice / edited by James L Nolan, Jr.

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, 2002.

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Drug courts.

Drug courts -- United States.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse -- United States.

Part I. Empirical explorations: 1. Theory and practice in the Baltimore City Drug 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

Part 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.

Includes index.

9780202307138

xvi, 264 p.