Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Outpatient Commitment Law: Kendra's Law as Case Study

Therapeutic jurisprudence and outpatient commitment law: Kendra's Law and case study.

This article considers the implications of assisted outpatient commitment laws (OPC), with specific focus on New York's "Kendra's Law" through the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ). In this article, the author offers perspectives on the relationship between involuntary civil commitment, outpatient commitment, and the concept of the "least restrictive alternative"; considers pertinent empir...

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...

Social work and the law: a therapeutic jurisprudence perspective.

Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeuti...

Contemporary Jurisprudence and International Law

Jurisprudence , law and certainty in

With different nuances and from diverse analyses, scholars agree to maintain that the interaction of law and natural philosophy contributed to originate distinctive conceptual categories such as facts, certainty, and probability during the early-modern period. From this historiographical account, Francis Bacon has been highlighted as one of the most influential authors who merged legal thinking...