Open AccessGetting Started with the Mainstreaming of Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Criminal Cases: Tips on How and Where to Begin
Author(s) -
David Wexler
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista española de investigación criminológica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1696-9219
DOI - 10.46381/reic.v14i0.134
Subject(s) - therapeutic jurisprudence , mainstream , mainstreaming , jurisprudence , law , criminal justice , political science , economic justice , criminal law , perspective (graphical) , mental health , sociology , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , special education , artificial intelligence
Therapeutic Jurisprudence (“TJ”) is a perspective that looks at the law itself as a potential therapeutic (or anti-therapeutic) agent. Under TJ, the "law" consists of legal rules and procedures as well as the practices and techniques of legal actors (judges, lawyers, therapists and others) working in a legal environment. TJ is best known for its use in special 'problem-solving courts', such as drug treatment courts and mental health courts. Now, however, an effort is being made –internationally– to “mainstream” TJ: to bring therapeutic jurisprudence practices into the “ordinary” criminal justice legal system. The current monograph offers a guide to how the mainstreaming project should proceed, and, especially, offers some suggestions for where in the process we might most profitably begin.