""Reinventing Justice" is an indispensable book for anyone studying
the drug treatment court movement. It should be required reading
for lawyers, judges, treatment professionals, and others practicing
in treatment courts throughout the United States. Nolan's
impressive work contains fascinating ethnographic observations,
which are made even more significant because they are presented to
the reader alongside his skillful discussion of the historical
roots, socio-political context, and likely impact of the treatment
court movement on the criminal justice system of the future. From
the first page to the last, this book is beautifully written,
engaging, and informative."--Richard C. Boldt, University of
Maryland School of Law
""In this fine book, James Nolan extends his earlier work on the
growing role of therapeutic ideas in contemporary culture. Here, he
examines the cultural dominance of the therapeutic idiom in current
efforts to deal with the problem of drugs. Based on extensive
observations of drug courts and interviews with people involved in
them, he shows why these courts have become popular across the
country, how they function, and what they tell us about our
changing understandings of justice."--Robert Wuthnow, Princeton
University
"An important, well-written work that pays sustained
ethnographic attention to the newly emerging therapeutic drug
court. James Nolan reports that a new concept of justice is on the
rise: a kind of justice in therapeutic pursuit of the appearance of
changing hearts, requiring confessions far beyond the realm of
factual evidence, while delving into an inquisitorial morass of
motive and self-accountability. This book adds to a still
smallliterature that provides rigorous, empirical accounts of the
therapeutic age. It is a significant statement about how remarkably
influential this age has become."--Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley
College
""Rarely has there been an attempt to move beyond
pragmatic/evaluative questions to consider the place of drug courts
within criminal justice generally, or explore the theoretical
underpinnings of their operation. This book by James Nolan is both
welcome and timely. It will become a standard text for all readers
interested in drug courts."--Philip Bean, Loughborough
University
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