"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.
Awarded the 2011 PASS Award, this comic-book guide highlights the lessons to be learned from demonstration projects that seek to reform the criminal justice system.
The Center for Court Innovation celebrated its 15th anniversary on Oct. 4, 2011 at the Chelsea Art Museum with the help of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, Center Director Greg Berman, and Mayoral Advisor John Feinblatt, who was the evening's honoree.
Policy Exchange, a London think tank, hosts a discussion with Greg Berman from the Center for Court Innovation and John Prideaux of The Economist to celebrate the release of Daring to Fail: First Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform.
In an interview at the National Institute of Justice, Greg Berman of the Center for Court Innovation discusses how to assess criminal justice reform efforts.
In Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure (Rowman & Littlefield), Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox take a hard look at the challenges of reforming our criminal justice system. The reluctance of policymakers to talk openly about failure, the authors argue, has stunted the public conversation about crime in this country and stifled new ideas.
Daring to Fail is a collection of interviews with leaders in a variety of fields—prosecution, policing, community corrections, indigent defense and others—about leadership, management and innovation.
To encourage justice practitioners to test new ideas, we need to foster a climate in which failure is openly discussed, writes Greg Berman, the director of the Center for Court Innovation in this op-ed from the National Law Journal.
