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Notable new scholarship on therapeutic jurisprudence

By Douglas A. Berman

I just noticed via SSRN this interesting new paper from David Wexler, titled "Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Legal Landscapes, and Form Reform: The Case of Diversion." Here is the abstract: This essay, prepared for a therapeutic jurisprudence workshop at the Florida Coastal Law School, will be published in the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Review of the Florida Coastal Law Review.  It discusses several therapeutic and antitherapeutic legal landscapes operative in diversion, sentencing, and corrections, such as sentence credit for presentence confinement, the relevance of post-offense and post-sentence rehabilitation on sentence imposition, and the absence of motivational power in the federal mechanism of supervised release.  Finally, it discusses in detail the federal diversion program, and the pretrial diversion form and related procedures as detailed in the US Attorneys Manual...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).