Changing the system and making it work: The process of implementing drug courts in Los Angeles county

Justice System Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 268-290

  Torres, Sam ^a   Deschenes, Elizabeth Piper ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85010515463     PISSN: 0098261X     EISSN: 23277556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23277556.1997.10871264     Document Type: Article

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