David B. Wexler’s research while affiliated with University of Puerto Rico System and other places

... These specialized courts seek to address the root cause of criminal behavior rather than superficially dealing with a symptom of some deep underlying issue (Reiksts, 2008). Based on the principles of both Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice, these new court systems shed the traditional adversarial court model in favor of a more rehabilitative approach to justice (Schneider, Bloom, & Heerema, 2007;Wexler & Winick, 1992;Winick, Wexler, & Dauer, 1999). Due to the limited existence of these courts in Canada in comparison with the United States, the focus for the purposes of the present article will be on three specific kinds of problem-solving courts: community, mental health and drug courts. ...

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Problem-solving courts in Canada: A review and a call for empirically-based evaluation methods

... Louis M. Brown was the first to mention the concept in academic circles via his book Preventive Law in 1950 [24]. Up to 1997, Preventive Law (see Definition 1) was understood as a branch of law that endeavours to minimise the risk of litigation or to secure more certainty regarding legal rights and duties [32,33]. During that period, researchers took into consideration the proactive parameters and the reinforcing parameters (i.e., the strengthening of legal rights and duties) of preventive law [24]. ...

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Ethical and preventive legal technology

... In preventive lawyering, the lawyer examines expected future legal risks and builds, with the client, a legal strategy that will reduce those risks. The lawyer achieves this by carrying out a regular 'legal check-up' (Stolle and Wexler, 1997). The lawyer interviews the client supported by an array of questions that surveys primary life domains and, based on this knowledge, builds with the client a legal strategy for treating present as well as potential future legal problems. ...

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Embedding preventive lawyering principles in preventive social work as a response to clients with complex problems in the post- Covid-19 era: An opinion piece

... ongoing behavior), and the message is presented by a credible source who offers a way of effectively avoiding the threatened consequences of the behavior. Without satisfying these requirements, fear-arousing messages are likely to produce no change or, in the worst case scenarios, iatrogenic effects as a result of message rejection, possibly brought about by source derogation or psychological reactance (Brehm, 2000). ...

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Crano, W. D., & Gardikiotis, A. (in press). Attitudes and attitude change. In J. D. Wright (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

... The broad aim of TJ scholarship is to explore ways to implement law as a restorative, remedial and healing instrument, with a view to reducing its potentially harmful, emotional, psychological, relational and economic effects (18). Developed from mental health law in 1970s America (19,20), TJ is a movement which seeks to establish more humane and psychologically optimal approaches to law and legal issues, with an emphasis on relationality and collaboration (21). The broad aims of TJ scholarship are to use the law to empower and to promote wellbeing (22) without supporting paternalism or coercion (1,11). ...

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Protecting emotional wellbeing during childbirth: exploring the role of organisational regulatory processes in promoting compassion

... because they showed empathy, good communicational, and listening ability (Winick, et al., 1999). Though a gender difference does occur between men and women over the question of communicational styles. ...

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The Importance and Implication of Communication Competence and Level of Satisfaction for Lawyer-Client Interaction in Court Cases

... Применяя правовые нормы и процедуры, работники судебной системы (т. е. адвокаты и судьи) опосредованно оказывают влияние, терапевтическое или нетерапевтическое, на обвиняемых по уголовным делам, с которыми они взаимодействуют (Wexler, 1993;Winick, 1997). Одной из целей терапевтической юриспруденции является изучение этого влияния, чтобы определить, возможно ли усилить терапевтический эффект и уменьшить антитерапевтические последствия, не нарушая конституционные нормы надлежащего судопроизводства (Winick, 1997). ...

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Measuring effectiveness of holistic defense: social service provision and justice system outcomes

... Esta perspectiva requiere, como proponen Lynch y Perlin (2021), convocando a Brookbanks (2001), transformar el pensamiento ético respecto el papel que deben desempeñar la ley y los profesionales (Bulgado-Benavides et al., 2024). A este respecto, los padres de la TJ, Winick y Wexler (2007) precisaron que la Justicia Terapéutica apoya una ética del cuidado (Perlin, 2017). ...

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La ética del cuidado y la TJ para la humanización del sistema de justicia

... Por tanto, la Jurisprudencia Terapéutica evidencia la necesidad de una Psicología para, en el y del Derecho (v. gr., Arredondo, Kumli, Soto, Colin, Ornellas, Davilla, Edwards y Hyman2001; Sturgis, 2003;Tesler, 2001;Weisz, 2002;Wexler, 2002). ...

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¿Qué es la Psicología Jurídica?