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Therapeutic Jurisprudence makes Black’s Law Dictionary
The new edition of Black’s Law Dictionary contains an entry for therapeutic jurisprudence: therapeutic jurisprudence. The study of the effects of law and the legal system on the behavior, emotions, and mental health of people: esp., a multidisciplinary examination of how law and mental health interact. • ‘This discipline originated in the late 1980s as an... »
The Supreme Court’s Evolving Death Penalty Jurisprudence: Severe Mental Illness As The Next Frontier
Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent death penalty jurisprudence displays the Court’s willingness to invalidate the death penalty for certain offenses or classes of offenders, including those with mental retardation and those who were under eighteen at the time of the offense. The Court has noted that the death penalty in these cases constitutes... »
