Dostoevsky as Juvenile Justice Advocate and Progenitor of Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Authors

Amy D. Ronner

First Page

5

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In this Article, I explore this fixation with childhood suffering and suggest that Dostoevsky implicitly predicted the core tenets of a relatively new legal movement, called "therapeutic jurisprudence" ("TJ"), and I broach the question of why this matters. In an effort to provide an answer, I identify Dostoevsky as an early ombudsman for therapeutic juvenile justice and link him to the voiceless "polyphonic" voices in The Brothers Karamazov and to what I denominate the poly-personae of A Writer's Diary.

Recommended Citation

Amy D. Ronner, Dostoevsky as Juvenile Justice Advocate and Progenitor of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, 30 St. Thomas L. Rev. 5 (2017).
Available at: https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol30/iss1/4