Research demonstrates that mental health courts (MHCs) lead to improved outcomes compared to traditional criminal court processes. An underlying premise of MHCs is therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ). However, no research, to our knowledge, has examined whether MHC outcomes are predicted by TJ principles as theorized. In the present study, we examined whether principles measured at the onset of MHC ...

In this paper we briefly focus on intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) and the Australian legal response, using recent Court judgements and Heather Wishik’s feminist jurisprudence framework for inquiry to guide investigation. The key questions being asked are: (1) What have been and what are now all women’s experiences of IPSV addressed by the substance and process of rape law? (2) What assu...

The article aims to analyze the jurisprudence of highest courts regarding interpretation and application guilt plea standards known in United States America as "Alford" or "nolo contendere" pleas. In this regard, it will briefly present special procedure guilty agreement, with a focus on acknowledgment imputed offense by defendants. Furthermore, elements aforementioned American procedures recen...

there is no doubt that expressing new ideas, exchange of opinions, and criticism of the scholars’ ideas are among the scholarly traditions that are influential in purification as well as dynamic and sublime development of any science. the science of jurisprudence and the jurisprudential opinions of jurists are not apart from this rule, either. hence, in a fundamental research and through a desc...

Abstract Within their different mandates, the ICJ and ICC have decided on compensation for mass atrocities, including same factual scenarios related dual state/individual responsibility. However, no publication has examined these developments jointly comparatively. Thus, this article seeks to determine how both courts are should be developing jurisprudence atrocity cases. This suggests that two...

In my paper I deal with the jurisprudential interpretation of ius puniendi by providing a historical overview theories concerning this notion in time span almost 6000 years until it became state monopoly and humanization criminal law. The as legal ground punishment is based on different principles ages. becomes less relevant birth state, when monopoly. Nowadays meaning has been modified broaden...

the correspondence of juridical authorities in e-commerce   hossein jalaei nobarry [1]     abstract islamic religion has sufficiently attended along theological issues, discoursal arguments and expressions of values and ethics to obligatory and statutory provisions. as one of the proposed topics in jurisprudence relates to authorities in transactions, being conducted electonically all over the ...

Late twentieth-century jurisprudence on personal jurisdiction has had to deal with a fundamental challenge to conventional interpretations of both territorial sovereignty and networks or contacts, different than those that arose from traditional re-interpretations of visualized, cartographic space or corporate activity. Globalization makes border crossing a little bit too easy, and thereby call...

Despite the exceptionally high rates of domestic violence in Alaska, Alaskan jurisprudence affords battered women varied and sparse guidance for the use of their experience as a battered woman in criminal trials. Of the minimal guidance offered, none arises in the form of a binding Alaska Supreme Court opinion, rule of evidence, or governing statute. As one of the few states lacking established...