TY - JOUR PY - 2001// TI - Problem-solving courts: a brief primer JO - Law and policy A1 - Berman, Greg A1 - Feinblatt, John SP - 125 EP - 140 VL - 23 IS - 2 N2 - This essay traces the history of problem-solving courts (including drug courts, community courts, domestic violence courts and others), outlines problem-solving principles, and answers a basic set of questions about these new judicial experiments: Why now? What forces have sparked judges and attorneys across the country to innovate? What results have problem-solving courts achieved? And what - if any - trade-offs have been made to accomplish these results?
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0265-8240 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9930.00107 ID - ref1 ER -