Dan Cipullo, director of the Criminal Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, discusses why and how the court expanded its community court approach from one neighborhood to cover the entire city. (February 2012)
Sociologist Andrew Papachristos focuses his studies on urban neighborhoods, social networks, street gangs, violent crime, and gun violence. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University, Andrew will expand his use of network analysis to study crime in U.S. cities, paying particular attention to the way violence diffuses among populations of youth. During a break in a roundtable on collaborations between public health and public safety, he discusses how social network analysis can aid crime prevention.
Denise O'Donnell, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the U.S. Department of Justice, offers closing remarks at the International Conference of Community Courts in Washington, D.C.
In his appearance at the International Conference of Community Courts, R. Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy, discusses the role community courts are playing in efforts to reduce substance abuse and drug-fueled crime. Read the prepared remarks.
Assistant Attorney General Laurie O. Robinson addresses the audience at Community Justice 2012: the International Conference of Community Courts in Washington, D.C.
This report outlines some of the challenges of responding to retail theft and highlights several promising approaches that provide an alternative to the traditional justice system—whether via streamlined processing or by an alternative intervention for the offender. The report concludes with a guide for jurisdictions interested in piloting a program in their community to improve the response to retail theft.
Queens County (NY) Judge Fernando Camacho discusses why he created a prostitution diversion court that helps victims leave a life of prostitution by linking them to counseling and social services instead of sentencing them to jail time.
This report provides a profile of parolees released from upstate prisons to New York City between 2001 and 2008. Findings include a three-year re-arrest rate of 53% and a three-year return to prison rate of 29%. As context, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that nationwide, approximately one-third of formerly incarcerated persons on community supervision are returned to prison.
