ABSTRACT
The court stage can promote therapeutic consequences for youth offenders, help prepare the grounds for rehabilitation, encourage it, and even assist in a smoother reentry at a later stage. A recent paper by Wexler (2013) noted that therapeutic jurisprudence could learn more by turning to positive criminology and adopting its relevant techniques. In this chapter, I will explore the role of defense lawyers and evaluate the manner in which their role can reflect positive criminology themes and foster therapeutic consequences that can assist youth offenders in refraining from crime. Thus, I will examine how criminal defense lawyers can promote therapeutic consequences for youth defendants by merging positive criminology and therapeutic jurisprudence and outlining the lessons to be learned from this merge.
