Treatment Drug Courts

Author : James E. Lessenger,Glade F. Roper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387714332

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Drug Courts by James E. Lessenger,Glade F. Roper Pdf

This concise yet comprehensive reference is the first of its kind and draws on the authors’ personal teaching file of cases from the Adult Drug Court in California. The book offers unparalleled insight into the drug court system and the medical problems of drug court patients. It is the first book of its kind in the family medicine literature. The authors share their extensive knowledge of addiction and withdrawal, treatment of patients with dual diagnoses of mental illness and addiction, and treatment of drug-associated diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, and HIV.

Author : National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drug courts
ISBN : PURD:32754078876574

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Defining Drug Courts by National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee Pdf

Author : Kerwin Kaye
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231547093

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Enforcing Freedom by Kerwin Kaye Pdf

In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Situating drug courts in a long line of state projects of race and class control, Kerwin Kaye details the ways in which the violence of the state is framed as beneficial for those subjected to it. He explores how courts decide whether to release or incarcerate participants using nominally colorblind criteria that draw on racialized imagery. Rehabilitation is defined as preparation for low-wage labor and the destruction of community ties with “bad influences,” a process that turns participants against one another. At the same time, Kaye points toward the complex ways in which participants negotiate state control in relation to other forms of constraint in their lives, sometimes embracing the state’s salutary violence as a means of countering their impoverishment. Simultaneously sensitive to ethnographic detail and theoretical implications, Enforcing Freedom offers a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.

Author : Mr. Justice Kofi Barnes
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781460286500

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People, Places and Things by Mr. Justice Kofi Barnes Pdf

“In my eyes, Drug Treatment Court gives people like me a second chance to change their lives and to realize that we deserve a good life, no matter what we have done in the past. All I can really say is that if I didn’t have the privilege to be in drug treatment court, I would either still be incarcerated or would not be alive today.” People, Places and Things is a collection of stories from men and women who have lived lives of drugs and crime. Each has made the courageous decision to overcome their addiction, and the even more courageous decision to share their journeys with you. As they strive for sobriety with the guidance of Canada’s drug treatment courts, they experience the extremes of addiction, the power of recovery, and the value of community. The stories within are raw—the authors have bared their souls, which is a difficult and brave endeavour. Some of the stories in this book are tales of happy endings, while some represent very dark moments. Addiction, as any of life’s hardships, is a continuous journey; void of an end-state. These pages contain lessons about the power of resilience, the magic of hope, and the strength of believing in one’s ability to become the person one wants to be. The extremes you might experience as you embrace this collection of stories, poems, and artwork is representative of the extremes that those recovering from addiction endure, and of the extremes experienced by those that support, counsel, and represent them throughout their recovery.

Author : Jr. Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351521611

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Drug Courts by Jr. Nolan Pdf

Drug 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 volume maintains an analytical concentration on drug courts and on the important practical, philosophical, and jurisprudential consequences of this unique form of therapeutic jurisprudence. Drug courts depart from the practices and procedures of typical criminal courts. Prosecutors and defense counsel play much-reduced roles. Often lawyers are not even present during regular drug court sessions. Instead, the main courtroom drama is between the judge and client, both of whom speak openly and freely in the drug court setting. Often accompanying the client is a treatment provider who advises the judge and reviews the client's progress in treatment. Court sessions are characterized by expressive and sometimes tearful testimonies about the recovery process, and are often punctuated with applause from those in attendance. Taken together, the chapters provide a variety of perspectives on drug courts, and extend our knowledge of the birth and evolution of a new movement. Drug Courts

Author : Jennifer Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781439910238

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Illness Or Deviance? by Jennifer Murphy Pdf

Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, Illness or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling it—incarcerating some drug users while putting others in treatment. Illness or Deviance? highlights the confusion and contradictions about labeling addiction. Murphy’s fieldwork in a drug court and an outpatient drug treatment facility yields fascinating insights, such as how courts and treatment centers both enforce the “disease” label of addiction, yet their management tactics overlap treatment with “therapeutic punishment.” The “addict" label is a result not just of using drugs, but also of being a part of the drug lifestyle, by selling drugs. In addition, Murphy observes that drug courts and treatment facilities benefit economically from their cooperation, creating a very powerful institutional arrangement. Murphy contextualizes her findings within theories of medical sociology as well as criminology to identify the policy implications of a medicalized view of addiction.

Author : C. West Huddleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drug courts
ISBN : UOM:39015062494193

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Drug Courts by C. West Huddleston Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Courts of Indian offenses
ISBN : PURD:32754076920978

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Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428964846

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Drug Courts: The Second Decade by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drug courts
ISBN : UOM:39015060569251

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Defining Drug Courts by National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee Pdf

Author : Rebecca Tiger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814784068

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Judging Addicts by Rebecca Tiger Pdf

The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased criminalization of drugs and the medicalization of addiction in the U.S. by focusing on drug courts, where defendants are sent to drug treatment instead of prison. Rebecca Tiger explores how advocates of these courts make their case for what they call “enlightened coercion,” detailing how they use medical theories of addiction to justify increased criminal justice oversight of defendants who, through this process, are defined as both “sick” and “bad.” Tiger shows how these courts fuse punitive and therapeutic approaches to drug use in the name of a “progressive” and “enlightened” approach to addiction. She critiques the medicalization of drug users, showing how the disease designation can complement, rather than contradict, punitive approaches, demonstrating that these courts are neither unprecedented nor unique, and that they contain great potential to expand punitive control over drug users. Tiger argues that the medicalization of addiction has done little to stem the punishment of drug users because of a key conceptual overlap in the medical and punitive approaches—that habitual drug use is a problem that needs to be fixed through sobriety. Judging Addicts presses policymakers to implement humane responses to persistent substance use that remove its control entirely from the criminal justice system and ultimately explores the nature of crime and punishment in the U.S. today.

Author : Jeffrey A. Butts,John Roman
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 087766725X

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Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse by Jeffrey A. Butts,John Roman Pdf

This book examines the ideas behind juvenile drug courts and explores their history and popularity. The collection assesses the evidence supporting juvenile drug courts and guides the next generation of evaluation research.

Author : Celinda Franco
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9781437941807

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Drug Courts: Background, Effectiveness, and Policy Issues for Congress by Celinda Franco Pdf

Author : Leticia Gutierrez,Guy Bourgon
Publisher : Public Safety Canada
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Drug courts
ISBN : 1100509658

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Drug Treatment Courts by Leticia Gutierrez,Guy Bourgon Pdf

Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criminals
ISBN : UCBK:C084613055

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Adult Drug Courts by United States. Government Accountability Office Pdf