Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Drug Treatment Court Movement: Revolutionizing the Criminal Justice System's Response to Drug Abuse and Crime in America

This Article is a grassroots contribution to the legal developments in therapeutic jurisprudence and Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) from two judge-practitioners. The purpose for writing this Article is to dip into the “therapeutic jurisprudence well” and use this emerging field as an analytic tool to examine DTCs. In so doing, we propose to establish therapeutic jurisprudence as the DTC movement’s jurisprudential foundation. We hope