Organizational Interpretations of Drug Test Results

Paik, Leslie

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2006.00286.x

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“…“[It's] looking funny,” she said. Case managers draw on clients' behaviors and actions beyond the drug test to assess their compliance (Paik 2006a).…”

Section: Sanctioning Violationsmentioning

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Courting Compliance: Case Managers as “Double Agents” in the Mental Health Court

Castellano

2011

Law soc. inq.

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An ethnographic study of four Midwest mental health courts was focused on how case managers influence the judicial response to offender noncompliance. Mental health courts, which bear little resemblance to traditional work group models, are staffed by teams of legal and social service professionals working collaboratively toward reducing recidivism and community reintegration for high‐risk offenders. Few studies, however, have explored how treatment providers practice their trade in this new court organization. I investigate how case management professionals, working at the intersections of the social welfare and criminal justice systems, leverage courtroom decision making that results in greater leniency or enhanced punishment. The findings suggest that mental‐health‐court case managers act as boundary spanners in terms of their strategic use of resources to facilitate treatment goals. I conclude that case managers act as “double agents” challenging the state to advocate for clemency while enforcing client rules to uphold the integrity of the court.

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“…“[It's] looking funny,” she said. Case managers draw on clients' behaviors and actions beyond the drug test to assess their compliance (Paik 2006a).…”

Section: Sanctioning Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Courting Compliance: Case Managers as “Double Agents” in the Mental Health Court

Castellano

2011

Law soc. inq.

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“…One area of qualitative inquiry focuses on how team members employ therapeutic practices to capture how court professionals teach participants to adopt healthy behaviors in accordance with normative social expectations. Scholars report on how staff members interpret and respond to drug court clients’ behavior to construct their moral identities at various stages of the court program (Colyer 2007; Mackinem and Higgins 2007; Paik 2006). Scholars have also written ethnographic accounts that illustrate the structure and culture of PSCs as akin to a theatrical performance (Miller and Johnson 2009), what Nolan calls “therapeutic theatre” (Nolan 2001, 61).…”

Section: Research On Problem‐solving Courtsmentioning

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Problem‐Solving Courts: Theory and Practice

Castellano

2011

Sociology Compass

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Problem-solving courts (PSCs) are a popular and fast-growing alternative to the usual way of handling criminal cases. In place of the adversarial process, they provide court-supervised treatment to certain groups of offenders by addressing the underlying causes of criminal behavior. They take on a variety of forms including drug courts, mental health courts, domestic violence courts, veterans' courts, and homeless courts. PSCs, as relatively new innovations in the criminal justice system, are still evolving in scope and in practice. This article then attempts to synthesize what we know about these specialty dockets. To do so, this article (1) explores the origins and developments of PSCs as well as highlights their defining characteristics; (2) examines the theoretical approaches and empirical findings of contemporary research on problem-solving courts; (3) critically discusses whether this new approach to old problems compromises core judicial principles; and (4) suggests directions for further research to better understand the cautionary promise of problem-solving justice.

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“…Questions about agency and accountability are recurring aspects of social problems work concerned with children and young people done by human service and social control professionals (Ferguson 2000; Joyce 2005; Paik 2006). Their social problems work involves interpreting and applying general social policies to particular circumstances (Artis 2004; Lipsky 1980; Warren 1983).…”

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Social Problems Work: The Cases of Children and Youth

Miller

Vitus

2009

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews the literature on social problems work concerned with children and young people. Social problems work involves assessing particular people, events and circumstances as instances of social problems. We focus on how social problems work is organized within discourses of childhood and youth, how it is a site for holding children and young people accountable, and how normalization is an aspect of social problems work. Our review brings together analytic themes in the literature on social problems and that on children and young people. We also point to topics that might be elaborated upon in future research on social problems work concerned with children and young people.

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Organizational Interpretations of Drug Test Results

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Courting Compliance: Case Managers as “Double Agents” in the Mental Health Court

Courting Compliance: Case Managers as “Double Agents” in the Mental Health Court

Problem‐Solving Courts: Theory and Practice

Social Problems Work: The Cases of Children and Youth

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