It is estimated that unpaid child support payments in the United States exceed $110 billion. Child support cases are hard ones for courts, particularly when jobs are scarce.

Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has written and lectured widely on crime prevention, procedural justice, and community capacity building, with an emphasis on empirical investigation. She was instrumental in developing "Project Safe Neighborhoods," a groundbreaking empirical approach to violence reduction that was documented to curtail violence in Chicago.

The Near Westside Initiative, a community-based neighborhood organization in Syracuse, New York, that promotes technology, entrepreneurship, and cultural revitalization, profiled the Near Westside Peacemaking Program in its February 2015 newsletter.  

Developed in partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Alfred Siegel Scholarship Fund honors Alfred Siegel, the Center for Court Innovation’s deputy director who passed away last year.

Each year, the Center for Court Innovation helps to reduce the use of jail in New York by providing meaningful alternatives to incarceration to tens of thousands of defendants.

A few years ago, the Center for Court Innovation opened Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Crown Heights.

Today's Wall Street Journal features an op-ed entitled A Surprising Portrait of the Misdemeanor Criminal by Greg Berman.

The Center for Court Innovation’s Youth Justice Board is pleased to announce the launch of NextMoveNYC.org, a mobile website designed to help disconnected young people achieve their goals.

At the Center for Court Innovation, we have an abiding interest in helping the justice system improve the ways that it reaches out to, and speaks with, the public

Many justice reformers have come to recognize that prostitution is often a form of human trafficking and that the standard response to these cases—fines and jail time—requires significant rethinking.