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Same, same or different? Is trauma-informed sentencing a form of therapeutic jurisprudence?

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dc.contributor.authorMcLachlan, K.J.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe fundamental purposes of therapeutic jurisprudence and "trauma-informed" criminal justice practices are similar: to recognise the importance of therapeutic (trauma-informed) interactions in promoting recovery and desistance from crime, while also avoiding anti-therapeutic outcomes caused by interactions with the criminal justice system. This paper examines the similarities and differences between therapeutic jurisprudence in sentencing and trauma-informed sentencing to explore whether trauma-informed sentencing should be regarded as a form of therapeutic jurisprudence. While therapeutic jurisprudence, as a legal construct, gives a high priority to working within the existing law to achieve therapeutic outcomes, a trauma-informed approach, emerging as it has from social science and allied health origins, may challenge the veracity and efficacy of current laws and focus instead on how law reform could achieve more therapeutic outcomes.
dc.identifier.citationWeb Journal of Current Legal Issues, 2021; 25(1):1-18
dc.identifier.issn2059-0881
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/25432
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWeb Journal of Current Legal Issues
dc.rightsCopyright 2021 The author(s).
dc.source.urihttp://webjcli.org/index.php/webjcli/article/view/738/1041
dc.subjectcriminal justice
dc.subjectanti-therapeutic outcomes
dc.subjectcurrent laws
dc.titleSame, same or different? Is trauma-informed sentencing a form of therapeutic jurisprudence?
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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