In what ways do drug courts and other courts that use therapeutic jurisprudence challenge traditional notions of court reform? To what extent might these courts become the focus of court reform in the future? Why? quzket

Therapeutic jurisprudence was adopted as a response to the recognition that sentencing offenders to prison did not succeed in bringing a change in the offender's behavior in drug possession charges and cases.

Instead of relying on the traditional notions of justice, the drug treatment court emphasized 'offender's rehabilitation' as a resolve to offenders charged with drug possession.

This resolve actually proved successful in helping many addicts to end their addiction as it provided supervision and rehabilitation to avoid re-involvement of the same offence.

Therefore, court reforms have become a need for the future. The traditional notion of justice such as sentencing to prison has become quite ineffective to many behavioral offences. New strategies of justice or punishments should be studied and put into practice to change the behavior of the offenders so that similar offences would not be committed again. This can help reduce the number of behavioral crimes in the near future.