Few would dispute that there is considerable frustration with conventional practices in the
American criminal justice system. Ubiquitous are complaints about overcrowded jails and …

Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing
the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of …

The rise of retributivism and its rational actor model of criminal behavior helped pave the
path toward the current era of mass incarceration. Conceptualizing criminal offenders as …

Since 1999, a number of Indigenous sentencing courts have been established in Australia
that use Indigenous community representatives to talk to a defendant about their offending …

Child abuse and neglect associated with Indigenous communities cannot be understood,
nor addressed, unless it is viewed from a broad perspective which includes both historical …

Battered immigrant women face tremendous barriers to using the US criminal justice system
to respond to the violence in their lives. These include various social, economic, cultural …

This article reviews the experience of Australian problem-solving courts since their
introduction 20 years ago. The paper begins with a description of these courts, describing …

" Access to justice is the subject for countless bar commissions, committees, conferences,
and colloquia, but it is not a core concern in American policy decisions, constitutional …

In such cases, the final resolution of the law-related aspects of a problem may require the
resolution of the dysfunction. If an offender continues to have a serious substance abuse …

This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made
and sustained through practices of lawyering. Lawyers play a vital and largely …