RT Article
T1 Community Practitioners in Criminal Courts: Risk Logics and Multiply-Disadvantaged Individuals
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 22
IS 4
SP 582
OP 602
A1 Quirouette, Marianne
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1679484990
AB The role community practitioners play in lower criminal courts has traditionally been overlooked in the socio-legal literature. In this article, I analyse how they use discretion and contribute to courts' knowledge about and understanding of the problems clients (the accused) face. I focus on how they manoeuvre the courts, offering supports, service or housing; ‘vouching' for or documenting progress, good character, compliance and potential; or educating judicial actors about social context, or therapeutic perspectives around mental health, substance use or trauma. I advance understandings of how non-justice actors interpret and use risk logics, while contributing medical, cultural and sociological knowledge that can improve practices in lower criminal courts, particularly by destabilizing assumptions about criminogenic risk management, poverty and choice.
K1 Community corrections
K1 Complex risk/need
K1 Criminal courts
K1 Discretion
K1 Service providers
DO 10.1177/1362480617707951