HLTHAGE 2L03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Drug Court, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Restorative Justice
3 Mar 2020
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Good to become addicted to endogenous opiates of exercise instead of carbs. As long as neo-liberal citizens continue to consume psychoactive substances, addiction is likely to remain. Those who choose to consume the wrong pleasures, or too much of the right ones, may continue to be medicalized as addicted. Boundaries disputes between public health and criminal justice governance over who might be constituted as sick, bad or bad in what grounds and by whom. Main thing - explored how mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are mediated by complex cultural constructions of ways in which we may "feel good" rather than mad, bad or sick. Therapeutic jurisprudence and the drug courts movement in the usa. Interdisciplinary study of the role of the law as a therapeutic agent to promote the reduction of laws anti-therapeutic effects and enhancement of them. Social science investigations will fail to provide proof that one legal procedure is superior to another.
