This curriculum is intended to provide practitioners with the tools to initiate their own problem-solving initiative and to assist court managers, judicial trainers, and others in putting on trainings at the local level.
Based on surveys conducted in 2004 and 2005, this report documents community feedback on quality of life, public safety, community resources, and criminal justice agencies in five New York City neighborhoods.
Originally published by The New Press, Good Courts has been re-issued by Quid Pro Books with a new introduction by New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Good Courts is the first book to document the movement toward problem-solving justice. The authors offer case studies from the field; review the growing evidence that the problem-solving approach is effective; and tackle the principal criticisms that problem-solving reforms have generated.
An examination of the six principles that animate problem-solving justice based on an analysis of problem-solving projects from across the country, and feedback from leading practitioners.
An in-depth look at the 10 projects awarded grants under the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Community-Based Problem-Solving Criminal Justice Initiative.
A review of nine practical strategies to break down the conceptual, and in some cases practical, barriers that separate specialized courts from each other, and that separate the world of problem-solving from traditional courts.
An edited transcript from a day-long roundtable that brought together judges, court administrators, probation officials, prosecutors, police chiefs and defense attorneys from across the country to discuss lessons they have learned from projects that did not succeed.