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Dr Vicki Lens explores how therapeutic jurisprudence principles might improve interactions between judges and child welfare caseworkers and produce better outcomes for children and families ... Much of the literature on therapeutic jurisprudence (T.J.) focuses on the targets of legal action. Courtroom exchanges, though, are less a duet between a judge and a respondent or … Continue reading Can therapeutic jurisprudence improve family/child neglect/child protection courts?
Therapeutic jurisprudence provides a bridge between the law and the health and social sciences... In this blog Priscilla Ferrazzi, a lawyer and Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada comments on the importance of Mental Health Rehabilitation (MHR) science in therapeutic jurisprudence thinking... Most of us in criminal law know that among the … Continue reading Can Mental Health Rehabilitation science improve criminal justice systems?
In this blog Dr Elaine Craig, Associate Professor Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, Nova Scotia, Canada reflects on the rituals of criminal trials and explores whether Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) principles can make inhospitable trials hospitable... Despite decades of progressive law reforms to the criminal law and the rules of evidence, fear of the criminal … Continue reading The Trauma of the (Sexual Assault) Trial and its Inhospitable Rituals
In June Santiago de Compostela in Spain was host to the Iberoamerican Congress of Therapeutic Jurisprudence. Joaquin Lopez reflects on an energising two days... Although I knew of the existence of the Iberoamerican Association of Therapeutic Jurisprudence/La Asociación Iberoamericana de Justicia Terapéutica (AITJ), I attended the Congress knowing none of its 1000 members. Over two days, I … Continue reading News from the 3rd Iberoamerican Therapeutic Jurisprudence Congress
The Second International Conference on Non-Adversarial Justice: Integrating Theory and Practice... Announcement and Call for Papers 6-8 April 2017 Parkroyal Darling Harbour Hotel 150 Day Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) is pleased to present the Second International Conference on Non-Adversarial Justice: Integrating Theory and Practice to be … Continue reading The Second International Conference on Non-Adversarial Justice! Save the date! Call for papers!
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