Criminal Courteaucracy

Scholars have increasingly recognized that criminal courts in the age of mass incarceration, particularly lower criminal courts, have effectively shifted from an adjudicatory system of justice to a managerial system of justice. Rather than adjudicating guilt or innocence, criminal courts are engaged in risk management and social control. However, literature on criminal courts has almost exclusively focused on judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, and their roles in the adjudication of criminal cases. This Article will focus instead on the managerial function of criminal courts by shining a spotlight on a less-scrutinized set of actors: criminal-court administrators. Through an in-depth case study of administrative actions in New York, this Article will explore how court administrators co-opt the tools of the court system—including bail, adjournments, and orders of protection—to tighten the net of social control around criminal defendants. Crucially, these administrative actions extend judges\u27 ability to detain and surveil criminal defendants despite apparent conflicts with statutes, higher court decisions, and defendants\u27 constitutional rights. At a time of massive reckoning with the criminal legal system, this paper will conclude that understanding the unique role of criminal court administrators in managerial criminal courts is necessary to navigate the best path forward for change

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El deporte como una herramienta de intervención para la práctica del trabajo social

Sports have been always connected to human existence and used with different social purposes throughout history. Consequently, trough the analysis of their historical course, it can be understood how they have become nowadays into a sociocultural phenomenon. Through all the social values that they bring, sports provide individuals with several benefits that improve their life quality and wellbeing. Indeed, trough the orientations, social functions and social theories they have proven to be a phenomenon in connection to social work. In this direction, using the basic method, social work discipline can make use of sports helping individuals, groups and communities to overcome life difficulties, to transform their realities, or to become a better version of themselves. Thus, demonstrating that they are a tool for social work, they can be implemented in every model of intervention.El deporte siempre ha estado conectado a la existencia del ser humano y ha sido usado con diferentes propósitos sociales a lo largo de la historia. Por esta razón, a través del análisis de su trayectoria histórica, se puede entender cómo se ha convertido actualmente en un fenómeno sociocultural. A través de los valores que promueve, el deporte aporta a los individuos numerosos beneficios que mejoran su calidad de vida y su bienestar. Además, a través de sus orientaciones, funciones y teorías sociales, se ha demostrado que es un fenómeno en conexión con el trabajo social. En este sentido, usando el método básico, la disciplina del trabajo social puede utilizar el deporte para ayudar a individuos, grupos y comunidades a superar dificultades vitales, a transformar sus realidades o a convertirse una mejor versión de sí mismos. De este modo, demostrando que es una herramienta para el trabajo social, se puede implementar en todos sus modelos de intervención.Depto. de Trabajo Social y Servicios SocialesFac. de Trabajo SocialTRUEunpu