The Center for Justice Innovation—and our operating programs—are regularly featured in the media. Here is a sampling of the press coverage of our work.
Now on the bench as Manhattan's "King of Prostitution," Weinberg puts himself in the other person's shoes but does not allow those shoes to walk all over him. He insists defendants say "yes" rather than "yeah" and you had better not chew gum when you step before him.
By no stretch of the imagination could New York - or Liverpool or Salford - be described as soft cities. Nor could community courts or community penalties be described as the soft option. Community justice works by making courts more responsive to the priorities of local people. By strengthening the links between the courts and the community, I believe people's confidence in the work of the court will rise and the community will feel more confident about tackling offending behaviour.
"We wanted to create a level playing field for the officers and the teens, one where both could communicate and build relationships they wouldn't have otherwise," said Amy Roza, director of youth services at the justice center.
With six months to go before the Red Hook Ikea is slated to open, the home furnishing giant has been quietly providing area residents with free job and computer-training classes.
The City pledge of swifter justice for quality of life victims and mandaged help for offenders moved to brick and mortor Thursday with announcement of Community Justice Center (CJC) location set to open in July.
Newark officials will ask residents what services they would like to see as they launch an effort to make social services more available to defendants in municipal court. Instead of just holding trials and sentencing defendants for their crimes, the court will make an effort to address the underlying problems.
Youth courts are expanding across New York City and state, according to educators and officials who met today at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn.
Youth courts are expanding across New York City and state, according to educators and officials who met today at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn.
Scotland's first community court, based on a radical U.S. model that works by giving offenders education, drug programmes and reparation orders rather than prison, is being planned for Glasgow's east end.
