Specialty, or “problem-solving”, courts developed as a response to policy seeking more therapeutic and rehabilitative outcomes for offenders, with the primary aim being to offer a diversion from prison as the place where this occurs. These courts, which include drug courts, family and domestic violence courts, Indigenous courts and mental impairment courts, are characteristically different not only in the way they sentence offenders, but in the way they utilize the services and expertise of government and non-government in the delivery and development of offender programs