2020 Volume 18 Pages 14-20
The purpose of this article was to explain a novel idea for criminal justice, “therapeutic jurisprudence,” im- plementing the rehabilitation process in the criminal procedure. For this purpose, the article introduces ther- apeutic justice based on therapeutic jurisprudence as the new concept for designing criminal justice and the problem-solving courts that are developing in the world. The second purpose of this article was to suggest the renovation of the Japanese criminal justice system based on therapeutic justice in order to stop repeat offence by the former defendants. Although there are several projects in the governmental sectors for reducing recidi- vism, this article argues that the decreasing of recidivism in Japan will be achieved not by these projects cur- rently promoted by the public sectors but by the development of problem-solving court system targeting drug addictions and repeated thefts such as kleptomania.
