Discretionary Justice (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

by Leslie Paik (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $171.35

  Overviews 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.