Therapeutic Justice by Karen A. Snedker

Author:Karen A. Snedker
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Prosecutor:We would like [name of client] to succeed… People will work with her. But she will need to work with the court. I don’t know if she is willing to make that commitment.

Judge:We will give you the opportunity to work on the plan. It is probably the last option in this court.

Team members consistently advocated less punitive responses based on individualized assessments. This point was clearly articulated by a defense attorney:I’ve really pushed for – they used to say graduated sanctions, everything is graduated sanctions . I keep saying, no, it should be individualized sanctions (emphasis added). We don’t... in drug court a model of your first violation is this, and your second violation is that. So I really try to push for kind of outside the box sanctions that go to the person’s abilities and purely their needs, as opposed to just, well, it is their second violation, so you are going to do a day of work crew.

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