Type:	Journal Article
Title:	What's so special about specialised courts?: the state and social change in Salt Lake City's domestic violence court
Other Titles:	Law & Society Review
Authors:	Mirchandani, Rekha
Keywords:	Theories of violence;Criminal justice responses;Specialist courts
Year:	2005
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
Citation:	39 (2), 2005
Notes:	This article looks at a US study that examines state action in a specialised court in domestic violence to see if specialised courts are about social control or social change. It considers the roles of social control and social change within domestic violence courts as having implications for critical theories of technocratic justice, for the battered women’s movement and also for democratic theories of the state. According to social control theories of the state, theories of technocractic or rationalised justice, law is about efficiency and speed. However, specialised courts appear to take a social problem approach to crime. A literature overview on the different theoretical approaches is provided.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17439
ISSN:	0023-9216
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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