Therapy in Justice: A Case for the Decriminalization of Attempted Suicide
Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) is an area of philosophy that stems from mental health law. David B. Wexler posits that it looks at the underappreciated area of the law’s impact on the emotional life and psychological well-being of the people subject to it. Further, it seeks to extrapolate the law's great potential to be a therapeutic agent and facilitate healing. Essentially, therapeutic jurisprudence focuses on the law in terms of legal arrangements and therapeutic outcomes rather than in terms of stringent rules. TJ seeks to explore the fields of psychiatry, psychology, criminology, and social work vis-a-vis how they can, simultaneously and harmoniously, be consistent with the due process framework. The criminal justice system in Kenya is founded on various principles such as retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and restoration. Retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation are the fundamental elements of the adversarial legal system that we inherited from our ...