This chapter introduces our new book, JUSTICE OUTSOURCED: THE THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE IMPLICATIONS OF JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING BY NON-JUDICIAL OFFICERS (Temple University Press) (2021). In it, we explain what led us to write this book, and how it focuses on a topic so far not discussed in the legal or criminological literature: the omnipresent use of non-judicial officers to make decisions in all aspects of the criminal justice system, and the implications of this use from the perspective of therapeutic jurisprudence, the ultimate aim of which is to determine whether legal rules, procedures, and lawyer roles can or should be reshaped to enhance their therapeutic potential while not subordinating due process principles. Essays in this book – by practicing lawyers, law professors, criminologists, sociologists and psychologists -- deal with non-judicial officers in the courtroom, with such officers in administrative settings, with ethical and practical considerations in the use of non-judicial officers, and the issues related to the use of such individuals from the perspective of a trial judge. it includes chapters on correctional law, immigration law, divorce law, criminal law and procedure, mental disability law, problem-solving courts, and other relates aspects of law and society. We hope that this book will lead to a greater understanding of this hidden aspect of the law, and why, on a daily basis, we -- giving this decision little or no thought --outsource important justice decision-making.