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- 1From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 5)PANELISTS: Susan Finlay Center for Problem Solving Courts Richard Hopper Hennepin County Community Court Derek Denckla Center for Court Innovation John S. Goldkamp Temple University Susan Finlay Center...
- 2From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 5)INTRODUCTION In the past few years, legislators and judges have become more vocal in their opposition to the "war on drugs" (2) in the United States. (3) However, challenging punitive drug laws is politically...
- 3From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 99, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBased on the empirical evidence, automatic adolescent transfer to adult criminal court poses significant processing, treatment, and recidivism problems for youths, especially when issues of developmental maturity and...
- 4From:Case Western Reserve Law Review (Vol. 69, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION We begin this Article by sharing something about our past legal practice careers, as we believe that is so relevant to the topic that we focus on in this Article. When Michael L. Perlin was a rookie...
- 5From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNon-adversarial justice theories and practices have developed in response to perceived failures of traditional western-style justice processes. However, we argue that while the operations of contemporary court processes...
- 6From:Trial (Vol. 39, Issue 4)It's no secret that lawyers have an image problem. A recent annual CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll that ranks the public's view of the honesty and integrity of people in various professions placed lawyers near the...
- 7From:Law and Psychology Review (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Advances in basic and clinical neuroscience will soon present novel options for prediction, treatment, and prevention of antisocial behavior, particularly drug addiction. These hard-won advances have...
- 8From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[Court costs, resource-intensive trials, booming prison populations and the obduracy of recidivism rates all present as ugly excesses of the criminal law adversarial paradigm. To combat these excesses, problem-solving...
- 9From:Washington Law Review (Vol. 83, Issue 4)Abstract: One of the most controversial policy questions in all of institutional mental disability law is the extent to which patients in psychiatric hospitals have a right to voluntary sexual interaction. The...
- 10From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 3)I. PROBLEM SOLVING COURTS: A TRANSFORMATION IN THE JUDICIAL ROLE In the past dozen or so years, a remarkable transformation has occurred in the role of the courts. (1) Courts traditionally have functioned as...
- 11From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION Queensland has had over 38 000 community titles schemes(1) established under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) ('the Act'). (2) The Office of the Commissioner for Body...
- 12From:Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review (Vol. 5) Peer-ReviewedThere has been growing interest in recent years in developing 'non-adversarial' forms of court based justice, and exploring the potential for courts to take a lead role in resolving the underlying issues that ensure...
- 13From:British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article reports on the results of case study research into the implementation and operation of a community court in an English city. The research was premised upon an understanding of the likely challenges posed by...
- 14From:Law and Psychology Review (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION The explosion of mental health courts (MHCs) from just a handful in the late 1990s to over 150 today (1) has undoubtedly increased awareness of their existence. The initiation of MHCs required the...
- 15From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4)The newest version of problem-solving courts has scarcely reached adolescence. (1) Many of these courts remain in the "model" stage, attempting to create a structure and vision that will have a transformative, systemic...
- 16From:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCombine the following: medicine, ethics, jurisprudence, behavioral genetics, and antisocial behavior (ASB). Given our level of scientific knowledge today, this combination is more akin to a cerebral smorgasbord than to...
- 17From:University of British Columbia Law Review (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Therapeutic jurisprudence as used in criminal justice is widely understood as a body of principles and practices that provide an alternative to the conventional, adversarial mode of justice by seeking...
- 18From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4)Therapeutic justice is a growing intellectual and socio-political movement, and like all movements it has diverse sources, influences, and goals. Like all movements, its outcomes are unpredictable. Even if we knew the...
- 19From:Journal of Gender, Race and Justice (Vol. 16, Issue 3)I. INTRODUCTION In the novel Catfish and Mandala, brother Minh is "different." (1) Minh not only "sw[ims], climb[s] trees, chop[s] wood, and practice[s] martial arts" hut "bullie[s] the bullies." (2) During puberty,...
- 20From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 5)Thursday, February 28, 2002 For me, coming to the Fordham Law School always is a treat. I've spent many hours researching in your wonderful library, and I've attended a zillion great functions here. Until today, my...