Problem Solving Courts

"My life has been profoundly changed by many of the books I have read. My desire is that Paradise leave the reader changed in a positive way-- willing to release fear and go forth in peaceful expectancy."JoAnn Miller, writing under Daugherty and associates, is a Peace Prophetess and an Intuitive. She specializes in a variety of readings designed to lead the client toward their destiny. You are invited to visit her at windancer-JoAnn.com.

Problem Solving Courts examines a relatively new approach to criminal justice in which judges, advised by law enforcement officers and mental health workers, meet with offenders on a weekly basis to talk about their issues in a socio-legal setting where therapeutic intervention is combined with a measure of punishment for program violations. Sociologist JoAnn Miller and judge Donald C. Johnson, creators of three successful problem solving courts themselves, address the compelling needs for alternatives to prisons, analyze problem solving courts in depth, and assess the impact problem solving courts can have on offenders and their communities.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Setting the Stage Chapter 1: Measured Justice and Problem Solving Court Principles Chapter 2: The Purposes, Promises, and the Magic of Contemporary Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in the United States Chapter 3: A Problem Solving Court Jurisprudence Chapter 4: Timeless Problems, Innovative Solutions Part II: Courts, Prisons, and Communities Chapter 5: Responding to Reality: They all Come Home Chapter 6: Blended Social Institutions Chapter 7: The Community: What it Needs and What it Deserves Chapter 8: Words, Words, Words: Distinctions and Differences Part III: Performances and Transformations Chapter 9: Transforming Master Status Chapter 10: Backstage Action Chapter 11: Front-Stage Performances Chapter 12: Finale Appendix A Biographical Sketches Appendix B Reentry Court Participation Agreement Appendix C Waiver Forms Appendix D Reentry Court Participant's Handbook Notes References Index About the Authors