Drug courts replace adversarial advocacy with team collaboration on treatment.

Evidence

Gone, too, is the adversarial character of the process, because all courtroom participants are expected to eollaborateasa*teamminva treatment regimen for the drugicourtisetelient.” This of course requires a change in orientation and responsibilities, particularly for defense attorneys. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1962

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to course themes on competing conceptions of the lawyer’s role and the adversarial versus problem-solving model of adjudication. — connects to: Drug courts fuse individualized addiction treatment directly into the judicial process. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1958; Drug courts aim to redirect offenders’ lives rather than punish proportionally — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1963; Drug courts are promoted as cheaper and more rehabilitative than traditional prosecution — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1972 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Drug courts are promoted as cheaper and more rehabilitative than traditional prosecution #expands (1.00) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1972
• The opioid crisis prompted treatment-focused policy, unlike prior drug epidemics #complicates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1086
• Judges must abandon adversarial advocacy for impartial detachment #qualifies (0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 555
• Court advocacy assumes roughly matched adversaries to reach justice #qualifies (0.90) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 262
• Drug decriminalization advances decarceration when paired with free treatment #complicates (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 287
• War-on-Drugs doctrine preferred punishment over treatment by design #complicates (0.80)
• Adversarial lawyers serve clients while inquisitorial lawyers serve justice #complicates (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 636
• Adversarial trials let each side’s attorneys shape evidence presentation to serve their clients. #complicates (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 790
• Collegial courts make decisions through group conference and majority-coalition opinion assignment #expands (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1597
• Diversifying the judiciary can worsen in-group bias against defendants #complicates (0.70)
• Appellate judging is collaborative teamwork while trial judging is solitary authority #complicates (0.70) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 575
• Forcing patients into a single diagnosis drives inappropriate drug treatment. #complicates (0.70) — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1339