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therapeutic jurisprudence  

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  • Therapeutic jurisprudence, a concept developed by David Wexler and Bruce Winick, is used to describe the therapeutic potential of the law. Specifically, therapeutic jurisprudence is a philosophy of law suggesting that legal rules, legal procedures, and roles of various actors in the legal and criminal justice systems can provide therapeutic or antitherapeutic consequences to both offenders and victims of crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics; Therapeutic Jurisprudence]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TD8N9N23-V

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