<div><p>Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth
Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
โ Scribed by Lesley Paik
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 239
- Series
- Critical Issues in Crime and Society
- Category
- Library
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