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Problem-solving courts and the criminal justice system / David DeMatteo, Kirk Heilbrun, Shelby Arnold, and Alice Thornewill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeMatteo, David, 1972- author.
- Heilbrun, Kirk, author.
- Arnold, Shelby, author.
- Thornewill, Alice, author.
- Series:
- Oxford clinical psychology.
- Oxford clinical psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courts of special jurisdiction--United States.
- Courts of special jurisdiction.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Criminals.
- Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Problem-Solving Courts and the Criminal Justice System' provides professionals and students in the fields of mental health, criminal justice, law, and related fields with a comprehensive foundation of information related to problem-solving courts and the role such courts play in reforming the United States criminal justice system. The text is a timely response to the rapidly changing landscape of that system, relatively recent development of problem-solving courts, and the ongoing paradigm shift away from punishment and toward restorative justice.
- Contents:
- Current issues in the criminal justice system: Introduction to problem-solving courts
- Alternatives to Standard Prosecution: problem-solving courts
- Clinical interventions in problem-solving courts
- Drug courts
- Mental health courts
- Other specialty courts
- Reentry courts
- Methodological challenges in researching problem-solving courts
- Ethical and legal considerations in problem-solving courts
- Problems-solving courts: present status and future directions
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 14, 2019).
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-084484-1
- 0-19-084485-X
- 0-19-084483-3
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