Curbing the 'revolving door' phenomenon with mentally impaired offenders: Applying a therapeutic jurisprudence lens.

摘要: This article considers the application of therapeutic jurisprudence principles in context recent innovation mental health courts, which are designed to enhance “wellbeing” mentally impaired offenders. It is argued that courts have potential address criminalisation offenders by facilitating positive outcomes and diverting into treatment. In particular, can facilitate successful treatment minimising use coercion ensuring accorded a “voice” treated with dignity respect. Accordingly, court seeks advance more integrative holistic approaches ideally should be informed evidence-based practice. Ultimately, however, success any intervention contingent on “brokering” relationships community service providers order accessibility The introduction Victorian Assessment Referral Court (ARC) List, aims consolidate management single court, also briefly examined as timely promising initiative curbing “revolving door” phenomenon.