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Therapeutic courts, also known as problem-solving courts, have been formed for many specific types of offenders, such as Drug Court, Domestic Violence courts, Community Courts, habitual offender courts, and Mental Health court. The commonality in all of these courts is that the focus is generally on treatment rather than punishment.
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Walker, L.E.A., Pann, J.M., Shapiro, D.L., Van Hasselt, V.B. (2016). Problem-Solving Courts. In: Best Practices for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21656-0_3
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