This article examines the purpose and practice of a Veterans Treatment Court (VTC), a new type of problem‐solving court designed to connect qualifying former service members in the criminal justice system with social services. While existing studies of VTCs explain these courts by focusing on veterans' distinct needs or deservingness based on their military service, this article argues that these courts are being created because of societal beliefs about veteran worth. By revealing how court staff, participants, and volunteers in one VTC invoke beliefs about veteran worth, the findings of this study show that VTCs link worth to veteran identity, leaving participants suspended in conflicting notions of state and individual responsibility for criminal behavior.

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值得伸张正义：实践中的退伍军人待遇法院

本文研究了退伍军人待遇法院（VTC）的目的和实践，该法院是一种新型的解决问题的法院，旨在将刑事司法系统中合格的前任服务人员与社会服务联系起来。尽管现有的VTC研究都通过根据退伍军人的兵役来关注他们的独特需求或应得性来解释这些法院，但本文认为建立这些法院是因为人们对退伍军人身价的社会信仰。通过揭示一个VTC中的法院工作人员，参与者和志愿者如何唤起人们对退伍军人身价的信念，这项研究的结果表明VTC将价值与退伍军人身份联系起来，使参与者陷入国家和个人对犯罪行为的个人责任的冲突概念中。