The Bureau of Justice Assistance's initiative, Encouraging Innovation: Field-Initiated Programs, partners with the field to leverage existing ideas and expertise to address the critical gaps in Bureau programs and strategies. This report analyzes the program, finding that overall, the Bureau of Justice Assistance achieved its goal of generating new ideas and programs.
This fact sheet highlights five recommendations from a comprehensive evaluation of the Red Hook Community Justice Center by the National Center for State Courts, which concludes that criminal courts throughout the country could adopt practices honed in community courts—such as new assessment tools, enhanced monitoring of court orders, information technology, procedural justice efforts, and expanded sentencing options—to improve the
This video was made by the Robin Hood Foundation to honor the Center for Court Innovation as one of four 2013 Robin Hood Heroes. To learn more, or see the Center's list of awards, click here.
The Midtown Community Court is a public/private partnership created in 1993 to apply innovative responses to quality-of-life offenses in and around Times Square. This video shows how the first community court in the country continues to adapt and thrive.
The Encyclopedia of Community Policing and Problem Solving is a comprehensive resource published by Sage in 2013. Read the "Community Prosecution" entry to learn about the strategy's components, history, and impact on community policing. To order the encyclopedia, visit the Sage site or the encyclopedia's order page.
In 2010, David O'Keefe was appointed the head of the Manhattan District Attorney's Crime Strategies Unit by newly elected D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr. The goal of the Crime Strategies Unit is ambitious: to attempt to prevent crime before it happens, rather than merely prosecute cases after an arrest. In this interview, O'Keefe describes his background as a prosecutor, how the unit began and the tools the office is using to meet its goals.
A collaboration between the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Rent, Rights, and Repairs is a step-by-step guide to housing court for public housing residents in New York City.
This statewide evaluation of New York's adult drug courts finds modest reductions in re-arrest over a three year study period, with wide variation in impact across the 86 sites. In fact, while the most effective courts reduce re-arrest by up to 21 percent, the least effective courts increase re-arrest.
This study examines the impact of the Staten Island Youth Court on case outcomes for 16- and 17-year-olds arraigned on shoplifting charges and finds a sharp reduction in guilty pleas and an increase in conditional dismissals (with Youth Court participation typically serving as the condition).
