Paying Attention to the Person: Compassion, Equality, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
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2019
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Hopkins, Anthony
Bartels, Lorana
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Carolina Academic Press
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If you are drawn to this book and this chapter, then it is likely that there is
something about therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) that resonates with you.
Perhaps you have recognized something of yourself reflected in TJ scholarship
or TJ practice and its concern for the wellbeing of those upon whom the law
acts or the “legal” actors themselves. This is what drew us to TJ, with its explicit
focus on the therapeutic and anti-therapeutic consequences of law and legal
process. This points to an important question: If TJ is something we are drawn
to, then what is it that precedes this? Why are we called in this way? The answer,
we contend, is the existence of a compassionate motivation. The argument we
make here is that TJ is founded upon the psychology of compassion,
understood as a sensitivity to and concern for the suffering of others and a
commitment to alleviating and preventing it. The “other” in the context of TJ
is any person upon whom the law acts or any actor within the legal process
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The Methodology and Practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
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