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A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
By Lerner-Wren, Ginger
- ISBN
- 9780807086988 9780807086995
- Publisher
- Beacon
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Reviewed on June 1, 2018 | Calls for Reform
Mental health courts admonish that the traditional criminal justice model is incapable of handling its large population of mentally ill offenders. In response, Lerner-Wren (psychology, Nova Southeastern Univ.) pioneered the first court to specialize in such cases in 1997 in Broward County, FL. This book records her judicial and professional advisory experiences. The court's philosophy of "therapeutic jurisprudence" is explored along with th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
