Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts

by David B. Wexler and Bruce J. Winick

Book Overview

Part I of this book describes the newly emerging problem-solving courts (such as drug treatment courts, domestic violence courts, mental health courts, etc.) and other related approaches to problem-solving judging and judging with an explicit ethic of care. Authors Winick and Wexler show how judges can use therapeutic jurisprudence not only in specialized problem-solving courts, but in general civil and criminal judicial settings as well. In Part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890894086
• ISBN13: 9780890894088
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.