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John Brown Went Off To War: Considering Veterans’ Courts As Problem-Solving Courts, Michael L. Perlin
John Brown Went Off To War: Considering Veterans’ Courts As Problem-Solving Courts, Michael L. Perlin
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In this paper, I seek to contextualize veterans courts in light of the therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) movement, the turn to problem-solving courts of all sorts (especially focusing on mental health courts), and the societal ambivalence that we have shown to veterans in the four decades since the Vietnam war.
I argue that TJ’s focuses on how law actually impacts people’s lives, on the law’s influence on emotional life and psychological well-being and on the need for law to value psychological health and avoid the imposition of anti-therapeutic consequences whenever possible can serve as a template for a veterans courts model …