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Reviewed by Dan A. Lewis, Department of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Mental health law has had an interesting last 40 years. Born of the reform movements of the 1960s and fueled by a civil rights and critical spirit, it has moved through the policy cycle that begins with great vigor and youthful...
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Psychiatric Services Online Journal Few topics are in mental health are more controversial than involuntary civil commitment. Forty years ago, most state commitment laws relied on a medical model. However, litigation arguing that such statutes were too sweeping in their reach resulted in the eventual adoption of more legalistic commitment laws across the United...
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(Carolina Academic Press, 2005) Bruce Winick kicks Therapeutuc Jurisprudence up several notches in this remarkable new book. With uncommon erudition and in precise, elegant prose, he demonstrates how coercion to mental health treatment — in both its institutional and community forms — can be seen more clearly through the lens of a theory that...
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Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts 48 Criminal Law Quarterly 267 (2003). There is growing worldwide interest in the twin concepts of problem-solving courts and therapeutic jurisprudence. Over the last fifteen years, courts in the United States have been experimenting with new ways to deliver justice. Drug treatment, domestic violence...
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Bruce J. Winick and David B. Wexler. Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2003. 331 pages. $45.00. In an era marked by the proliferation of specialized courts, Winick and Wexler’s treatise on the use of therapeutic jurisprudence in the judicial system is a timely...
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If only the editors and authors of htis remarkable work could somehow be empowered to rewrite our sexual offender legislation! This is a rich, provocative, thoughtful, and challenging collection of essays by scholars and clinicians who have carefully considered our current morally bankrupt policies and have found them woefully lacking from all imaginable perspectives....
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Book Review Essay: Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts written by Charity Scott, J.D., Atlanta, Georgia 25 J. Legal Med. 377 Copyright © 2004 by Taylor & Francis; Charity Scott, J.D., Atlanta, Georgia INTRODUCTION “Therapeutic jurisprudence” represents a shift in perspective on the role of law and courts in...
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Copyright © 2001 by Revista Juridica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico; Carol M. Romey I. WHAT IS THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND HOW IS THE FIELD OF STUDY DEVELOPING? Over the past thirteen years, Therapeutic Jurisprudence has surpassed the initial expectations of its authors, David Wexler and Bruce Winick, of presenting a methodology for studying...
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Bruce Winick kicks Therapeutic Jurisprudence up several notches in this remarkable new book. With uncommon erudition and in precise, elegant prose, he demonstrates how coercion to mental health treatment — in both its institutional and community forms — can be seen more clearly through the lens of a theory that takes seriously the therapeutic...
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