The use of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) approaches in mainstream court and legal settings often involves the development of new systems and programs Often TJ initiatives draw on social science research and practices to make our legal systems more effective. Evaluating the effectiveness of TJ reforms is key – are the reforms enhancing therapeutic outcomes or are they having unintended anti-therapeutic consequences?
This new article from the U.S. National Institute of Justice provides some great tips on how to build in evaluation right from the start.
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I think as a start we should identify the outcomes that TJ initiatives
should seek to achieve and, if possible, some basic measures that can be
referenced in evaluations of TJ initiatives so that we provide some
guidance on them as well as build a foundation for cumulative assessment.
Caroline
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From: Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Mainstream
To: ccooper@american.edu,
Date: 06/04/2015 06:20 AM
Subject: [New post] Planning for evaluation of therapeutic jurisprudence
initiatives
mainstreamtj posted: “The use of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) approaches in mainstream court and legal settings often involves the development of
new systems and programs Often TJ initiatives draw on social science research and practices to make our legal systems more effect”
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Good idea Caroline. I will email the advisory group and see if we can get some ideas flowing and write them up in a future blog post. Regards Pauline
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