Small Sanities, released through the Centre for Justice Innovation in the United Kingdom, outlines crime control lessons learned in New York, highlighting three areas that have been the focus of criminal justice reformers in New York in recent years: people, places, and process.
This article reports findings from the National Institute of Justice's Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation concerning the impact of drug courts on crime and incarceration. The study found that drug courts reduced the number of criminal acts by more than half over an 18-month tracking period. Published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, Volume 8, Number 2 (2012), and available from SpringerLink online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/q555w562154l4011/.
This guide for interns is one of four manuals that, together, explain how drug court teams can create a program to help drug court participants pursue higher education. The Practitioners Manual provides a road map for the entire program, which gives step-by-step guidance to participants enrolling in and seeking financial aid for college.
Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation is a comprehensive study of outcomes at 23 drug courts and six comparison jurisdictions around the country. The study found that adult drug courts substantially reduce crime and drug use and produce a particularly large return on investment (in terms of both recidivism reductions and cost savings) among offenders who are a high risk of re-offending. This brief article summarizes the study findings and discusses their policy implications. Published in Judicature.
What are the most important goals of statewide coordination? This fact sheet answers that question by outlining the experience of five states: California, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland and New York.
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.
A comprehensive evaluation of the Bronx Family Treatment Court, the report assesses court impacts on permanency outcomes and includes findings from an in-depth survey of parent-respondents, both in the Family Treatment Court and the traditional family court. The analysis of administrative court data found that the Family Treatment Court had little impact on child permanency outcomes.
The National Institute of Justice's Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation (MADCE) tested whether drug courts reduce drug use, crime, and associated problems; assessed how drug courts work and for whom; and analyzed cost savings in 23 drug courts and six comparison sites.
