David B. Wexler and the late Bruce J. Winick co-founded the field of social enquiry known as therapeutic jurisprudence, which seeks to assess the therapeutic and counter-therapeutic consequences of law and effect legal change to increase the law’s healing potential. Here they talk about the relationship between therapeutic jurisprudence and mental health courts.
A summary of focus groups of judges in New York and California examining which practices of problem-solving courts can be integrated into conventional court operations.
The results of focus groups conducted among the participants and court staff in three New York State drug courts. The research sought to answer the question: do drug court participants and court staff see eye to eye?
The executive summary of one of the first multi-year evaluations in the country to demonstrate consistent and meaningful recidivism impacts across a large number of drug court sites.
The conclusion of one of the first multi-year evaluations in the country to demonstrate consistent and meaningful recidivism impacts across a large number of drug court sites.
Based on focus groups and interviews with 35 judges in California and New York, the study assesses which problem-solving court practices are transferable to general court calendars, the major barriers to transferability and how problem-solving methods may be more widely disseminated among judges and judicial leaders.
An overview of the findings from, "The New York State Adult Drug Court Evaluation: Policies, Participants and Impacts." The study, conducted by the Center for Court Innovation and the New York State Office of Court Administration, found consistent recidivism impacts across a large number of drug court sites.