Open AccessTherapeutic Jurisprudence, Coercive Interventions, and Human Dignity
Author(s) -
Robert F. Schopp
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
qut law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2205-0507
pISSN - 2201-7275
DOI - 10.5204/qutlr.v16i3.667
Subject(s) - dignity , jurisprudence , law , redress , power (physics) , span (engineering) , style (visual arts) , political science , sociology , history , civil engineering , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , engineering
Therapeutic Jurisprudence pursues the reform of legal rules, procedures, and roles in order to promote the well-being of those affected without violating other important values embodied in law. This paper requires analysis of those relevant values and of the significance of those values for the most justified approach to defining and pursuing individual and public well-being. The analysis presented here provides a preliminary example of such an analysis that addresses human dignity as one value relevant to the most justified application of police power and parens patriae interventions to individuals with mental illness.