New York City Commissioner of Probation Vincent N. Schiraldi, who previously ran the juvenile justice system in Washington D.C., describes his journey from gadfly to government insider and the reforms he's been implementing along the way.
Sarah Schweig of the Center for Court Innovation talked with Roxann Pais Cotroneo, the city attorney of Harlingen, Texas about efforts to launch a community court for youth offenders.
This article provides highlights the various components that are contained in a process evaluation and explains what practitioners can expect to learn from one.
Linda Baird discusses the Youth Justice Board, which brings together high schoolers across New York City to study and make recommendations about justice policies that affect their peers.
Judge Miriam Cyrulnik explains how the court—the first of its kind in the country—addresses the unique needs of adolescent domestic violence victims and perpetrators.
The manual draws from the experiences of successful programs across the state to provide youth court coordinators with resources, tools, and guides for effective youth court operations.
This report is a brief evaluation of the Youth Justice Board's work on alternative-to-detention programs during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 program years. Findings show that the Board was successful in getting policymakers to listen to their policy recommendations and to implement one of them.
This study sought to understand how teenagers in a low-income and geographically isolated area of Brooklyn think about and engage in delinquent behavior using individual interview, focus group, and survey data.
With funding from the State Justice Institute, the Center for Court Innovation sought to test whether it was possible to create a court screening tool capable of efficiently identifying victims of trafficking and engaging them in needed services. This short report summarizes the implementation of this experiment and offers lessons for other jurisdictions interested in improving their response to trafficking.
