"Innovation in Criminal Justice" is a semester-long curriculum for graduate students in the fields of public policy, criminal justice, and law--aiming to promote discussion among the next generation of criminal justice leaders about risk-taking and failure.
“From Chicago to Brooklyn” charts the course of a program’s efforts in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to replicate CeaseFire Chicago, an anti-gun violence model.
"Small Experiments, Big Change" examines the role that demonstration projects—like HOPE Probation and other once small-scale, locally-grown efforts—have had in shaping criminal justice reform nationwide.
This paper provides results from an impact evaluation of the Harlem Parole Reentry Court. Although the court reduced re-convictions, increased parole revocations were also detected, suggesting that the increased reentry court supervision may have unintended negative consequences. Possible policy implications are discussed, including the need for improved staff training and for greater reliance on graduated sanctions in lieu of revocation. Published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Volume 50: 7 (2011).
This report describes the nature and scope of children's exposure to violence in eight sites nationwide that were selected to participate in the Attorney General's Defending Childhood demonstration program. This report describes the strategies the sites chose and draws key lessons from the planning phase.
This time lapse-video, produced by the Center for Court Innovation, shows a team of court-mandated offenders cleaning a site along the West Side Highway in Manhattan as part of NYC Community Cleanup. The cleanup shown here took place August 11, 2011. For more information about this particular cleanup event, read this article in the Manhattan Times.
