In and Beyond Misdemeanorland: Issa Kohler-Hausmann. Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.308 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691174303.

Finally, lower courts enacting managerial justice evaluate how well the justice-involved fulfill court requirements; evaluations of these "performances" largely determine the outcome of the cases in question. At the same time, I suspect that Kohler-Hausmann's account of managerial justice in New York City's lower courts may accurately capture the nature of therapeutic courts such as drug and mental-health courts. Although Kohler-Hausmann does not discuss therapeutic courts, my reading of the secondary literature suggests that these courts likely mete out a form of "managerial justice" that is akin to that which she observed in New York City's lower courts. In short, while the managerial justice on display in New York City's traditional (i.e. non-therapeutic) courts may not be present in many other traditional misdemeanor courts, my sense is that the therapeutic courts that have proliferated across the country largely conform to this model. [Extracted from the article]