Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Coercive Interventions, and Human Dignity

  • Robert Schopp University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Abstract

 

Therapeutic Jurisprudence pursues the reform of legal rules, procedures, and roles in order to promote the well-being of those affected without violating other important values embodied in law. This paper requires analysis of those relevant values and of the significance of those values for the most justified approach to defining and pursuing individual and public well-being. The analysis presented here provides a preliminary example of such an analysis that addresses human dignity as one value relevant to the most justified application of police power and parens patriae interventions to individuals with mental illness.

 

Published
Dec 13, 2016
How to Cite
SCHOPP, Robert. Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Coercive Interventions, and Human Dignity. QUT Law Review, [S.l.], v. 16, n. 3, p. 68-84, dec. 2016. ISSN 2201-7275. Available at: <https://lr.law.qut.edu.au/article/view/667>. Date accessed: 01 feb. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v16i3.667.
Section
Special Issue: Current Issues in Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Keywords

therapeutic jurisprudence, legal procedures, mental illness and the law, parens patriae
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