University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Law, Room A7-235

This workshop will be presented by Ann-Sophie Isabel, doctoral student at Faculty of Law of University of Sherbrooke.

This presentation will focus on the notion of adaptability and, most precisely, on the penal and social measures which result from it and which are presented as an alternative. The judiciarization of people with mental health problems in the justice system demonstrates the "inadequacy" of conventional ways (dissuasion, punishment, isolation, etc.) to deal with social problems (Dumais Michaud, 2017, MacDonald et al., 2014). In criminal and penal matters, various support programs in justice and mental health (PAJ-SM) have been instituted to offer a fairer penal treatment, and this, with the adaptability of the justice system and its interventions (Stratégie nationale justice et santé mentale, 2018 ; Ministère de la Justice du Québec, 2019). That said, what is the meaning of adaptability in criminal justice? Different institutional and governmental discourses will mainly be analyzed. Finally, the presentation will aim to reflect on the challenges of the proposed alternative, which remains the so-called adaptability of criminal justice, targeting the support programs in justice and mental health and for the implementation of various measures.