Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing (eBook)

The International Problem-Solving Court Movement

James L. Nolan (Autor)

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2009
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3079-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world. These innovative courts--including drug courts, community courts, domestic violence courts, and mental health courts--do not simply adjudicate offenders. Rather, they attempt to solve the problems underlying such criminal behaviors as petty theft, prostitution, and drug offenses. Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing is a study of the international problem-solving court movement and the first comparative analysis of the development of these courts in the United States and the other countries where the movement is most advanced: England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Looking at the various ways in which problem-solving courts have been taken up in these countries, James Nolan finds that while importers often see themselves as adapting the American courts to suit local conditions, they may actually be taking in more aspects of American law and culture than they realize or desire. In the countries that adopt them, problem-solving courts may in fact fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about justice. Based on ethnographic research in all six countries, the book examines these cases of legal borrowing for what they reveal about legal and cultural differences, the inextricable tie between law and culture, the processes of globalization, the unique but contested global role of the United States, and the changing face of law and justice around the world.

Autor

James L. Nolan, Jr., is professor of sociology at Williams College. He is the author of Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement (Princeton) and The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • American Criminal Law Review • Anti-Americanism • Arie Freiberg • attempt • Australians • Barrister • boldness • canadians • Case study • Cathy • Center for Court Innovation • Chief judge • Common Law • Community court • community service • comparative law • Consideration • counsel • court • court order • Courtroom • Courts of England and Wales • Crime • crime prevention • criminal justice • Criminology • defendant • Deliberation • Directive (European Union) • Discretion • district attorney • Diversion program • Domestic violence • Domestic violence court • Drug Court • Drug czar • drug rehabilitation • Due Process • Duluth model • England and Wales • formality • Globalization • Great Power • Harm reduction • Home office • Imprisonment • Institution • International Law • Judicial Activism • Judiciary • Judith Kaye • Jurisdiction • Law School • lawyer • Lecture • Legal culture • Legal Practice • legal process • Legal transplant • Legislation • Lucia Zedner • Magistrate • managerialism • mandatory sentencing • Mental health court • natural justice • Nomenclature • Open justice • Oxford University Press • Precedent • Probation • probation officer • Problem Solving • Problem-solving courts in the United States • Procedural law • Program Director • prohibition of drugs • Prosecutor • Prostitution • punishment • Reintegrative Shaming • Respondent • Restorative Justice • rhetoric • Richard Posner • sensibility • social issue • Sociology of Law • Solicitor • Standing (law) • Statute • Statutory Law • Stipendiary magistrate • Tel Aviv University • The Other Hand • Therapeutic Jurisprudence • victim support • Western Law • Working Group
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3079-6 / 1400830796
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3079-4 / 9781400830794