Doctoral Dissertation Research: Juvenile Drug Courts: An Ethnographic View of the Interagency Collaboration and Client Perceptions of the Court Intervention

博士论文研究：青少年毒品法庭：机构间合作的民族志观点和法庭干预的客户看法

• 批准号: 0351289
• 负责人: Robert Emerson
• 金额: $ 0.7万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0351289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Juvenile; Drug

The juvenile drug court is one of many recent attempts to change how the juvenile justice system considers the youth within the greater context of his family and community. Based on adult drug courts that started in the United States in the late 1980s, a juvenile drug court diverts juvenile offenders with substance abuse problems into drug treatment instead of traditional probation. Very little empirical research has been done on juvenile drug courts due their recent entry on the juvenile justice scene. This gap in research leaves unanswered many questions about the basic operation and decision-making processes characteristic of these courts such as: what kinds of tensions and conflict arise in the routine functioning of such inter-agency treatment programs? What are the key points of discretionary decision-making in these programs? What community and organizational factors influence the decision junctures and outcomes? What is the impact of the program on youth clients over time? To answer those questions, this project will look at the youth clients' institutional careers -- the stages a client moves through within a program and the array of outcomes available at various points in time. The project will use qualitative methods of ethnography (participant observation and interviews) and conversation analysis, following 30 youth in a juvenile drug court program for 12 months to obtain a naturalistic account of the process. In short, the project will create institutional "road maps" of each client to see if there are parallels, inconsistencies or contingencies marking critical decisions and junctures for different clients. The project objective is twofold: the first is to dissect the court's decision-making process, identifying the factors involved in that process and detecting variations among clients' institutional careers. The second is to pay particular attention to how youth clients and their parents become consumers of this process and the ways in which they try to shape the staff's decision-making process.

青少年毒品法庭是最近许多试图改变青少年司法系统在家庭和社区的更大背景下看待青少年的方式的尝试之一。 以美国 20 世纪 80 年代末设立的成人毒品法庭为基础，青少年毒品法庭将有药物滥用问题的青少年罪犯转入戒毒治疗，而不是传统的缓刑。 由于青少年毒品法庭最近才进入青少年司法领域，因此对其进行的实证研究很少。 这一研究空白留下了许多关于这些法院的基本运作和决策过程特征的问题，例如：在这种机构间治疗项目的日常运作中会出现什么样的紧张和冲突？这些计划中酌情决策的要点是什么？ 哪些社区和组织因素影响决策时刻和结果？ 随着时间的推移，该计划对青年客户有何影响？ 为了回答这些问题，该项目将着眼于青年客户的机构职业生涯——客户在项目中经历的阶段以及在不同时间点可获得的一系列结果。 该项目将使用人种学定性方法（参与者观察和访谈）和对话分析，对青少年毒品法庭项目中的 30 名青少年进行为期 12 个月的跟踪，以获得对该过程的自然描述。 简而言之，该项目将为每个客户创建制度“路线图”，看看是否存在相似之处、不一致之处或意外情况，标志着不同客户的关键决策和关键时刻。 该项目的目标有两个：首先是剖析法院的决策过程，确定该过程中涉及的因素并发现客户机构职业之间的差异。第二个是要特别关注青年客户及其父母如何成为这一过程的消费者，以及他们试图影响员工决策过程的方式。