Friday, April 28, 2006

Courtroom therapy makes a mockery of justice / Spiked, 24 Apr 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CB02E.htm
Frank Furedi
"The problem is that therapeutic justice makes a mockery of real justice. Victims of crime have every right to feel powerful emotions about their loss. But their emotions must not be allowed to influence the sentencing policies of the court. How people feel about a crime must not be confused with how we judge a criminal act."