Redefining criminal courts: problem-solving and the meaning of justice

The central argument of James Nolan's "Redefining Criminal Courts: Problem-Solving and the Meaning of Justice" have the appearances to be that problem-solving courts have become in like manner blinded by the seductive rhetoric of "therapeutic jurisprudence" that they have not to be found sight of fundamental legal principles like to be paid process and proportionality. (1) At the heart of Nolan's critique is the pertain to that, if the advocates of problem-solving courts have their way, treatment will in some way come to replace fairness as a central value of the American justice combination of parts to form a whole (2)

To illustrate his point that problem-solving courts are attempting a "radical judicial