Drug Treatment Courts, British Style: The Drug Treatment Court Movement in Britain*

Bean, Philip

doi:10.1081/ja-120014423

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“…Bean, 2002;Jeffries, 2002;La Prairie et al, 2002). Proponents of the drug court model suggest that the emergence of problem-solving courts represented an 'innovative judicial experiment' which has resulted in a 'quiet revolution' within the US criminal justice system (Freeman-Wilson & Huddleston, 1999, p. 4).…”

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Therapeutic Justice in Drug Courts: Crime, Punishment and Societies of Control

Vrecko

2009

Science as Culture

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In this paper I examine some of the legal and cultural implications of developments within the brain sciences, particularly in relation to changing conceptions of crime, criminality, punishment and justice. I describe how, within the United States, a brain-targeting medication has come to form a key element within emerging 'drug court' strategies for managing repeat offenders that shift from imprisonment and supervision toward more direct control over biological processes. This case study illustrates aspects of the changing logics of control that characterize contemporary industrialized societies of the West, in which new forms of 'postsocial control' are replacing or supplementing traditional forms of social control. I draw upon and develop Deleuze's notion of 'societies of control' to historically situate how drug courts are beginning to reformulate addiction, desire, behavior and justice along biological lines, and are yielding new technological and practical forms of governance that are transforming the ways that institutions understand and manage their subjects.

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Therapeutic Justice in Drug Courts: Crime, Punishment and Societies of Control

Vrecko

2009

Science as Culture

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“…The problem-solving court model is proliferating across the US and Europe (Butts, 2001; Bean, 2002). While the model is built on the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence and a non-adversarial collaborative approach to reforming criminal justice processes, it is often presented as a judge-led and judge-centered movement (see for example Miller & Johnson, 2009).…”

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“…Problem-solving courts in the US and UK maintain similar designs with a comparative focus on collaborative decision-making framed by a therapeutic jurisprudence process (Bean, 2002; Home Office, 2011; Rottman & Casey, 1999). Under this model the traditional detachment and neutrality of the judicial branch in the US system is replaced with a participatory adjudicator.…”

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Front-Stage Stars and Backstage Producers: The Role of Judges in Problem-Solving Courts

Portillo

Rudes

Viglione

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Victims & Offenders

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In problem-solving courts judges are no longer neutral arbitrators in adversarial justice processes. Instead, judges directly engage with court participants. The movement towards problem-solving court models emerges from a collaborative therapeutic jurisprudence framework. While most scholars argue judges are the central courtroom actors within problem-solving courts, we find judges are the stars front-stage, but play a more supporting role backstage. We use Goffman's front-stage-backstage framework to analyze 350 hours of ethnographic fieldwork within five problem-solving courts. Problem-solving courts are collaborative organizations with shifting leadership, based on forum. Understanding how the roles of courtroom workgroup actors adapt under the new court model is foundational for effective implementation of these justice processes.

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“…At present, similar models are being tested in several countries (La Praine & Gliksmanl, 2002;Makkai, 2002). In England and Wales, Bean (2002) noted that the importation of the drug treatment court has not been possible because of legislative difficulties. Once the legal framework was in place for the drug treatment and testing order (DTTO) in 1998, a pilot project involving three sites was initiated.…”

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Treatment or prison: service user and staff experiences of drug treatment and testing orders

Kouimtsidis¹,

Reynolds

Asamoah

2007

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AIMS AND METHODThe drug treatment and testing order (DTTO) is a treatment option imposed by courts and the first multi-agency initiative in the treatment of substance misuse in the UK. We used separate focus groups for service users and staff involved with DTTOs in Hertfordshire to qualitatively investigate their experiences of the orders. Interviews were recorded and analysed using grounded theory methods.RESULTSAnalysis highlighted areas of concern related to the central issue of forced treatment, which was more challenging for staff than for service users. The area of most concern was multiagency collaboration.CLINICAL IMPLICATIONSMulti-agency initiatives require extensive liaison across agencies.

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Drug Treatment Courts, British Style: The Drug Treatment Court Movement in Britain*

Cited by 12 publications

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Therapeutic Justice in Drug Courts: Crime, Punishment and Societies of Control

Therapeutic Justice in Drug Courts: Crime, Punishment and Societies of Control

Front-Stage Stars and Backstage Producers: The Role of Judges in Problem-Solving Courts

Treatment or prison: service user and staff experiences of drug treatment and testing orders

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