Roxann Pais was appointed to be Dallas’s chief community prosecutor in 2001. Carolyn Turgeon from the Center for Court Innovation talked with Pais about the unique contributions her office has made to the field of community prosecution.
Thomas Cayler has been a resident of the Times Square neighborhood for 25 years and has been involved in Midtown Community Court’s Community Impact Panels program for the last two. He talked to the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his experiences.
One of the top drug court researchers in the country, Marlowe sat down with the Center for Court Innovation's Carolyn Turgeon to talk about his research on drug courts.
John Stuart has been the State Public Defender of Minnesota since 1990. In February 2005, Stuart spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about how problem-solving justice initiatives are playing out in Minnesota.
Bruce J. Winick was Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami. David B. Wexler is Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. Together, they are the leading authorities on “therapeutic jurisprudence.” They have co-authored and co-edited numerous books and articles, including the landmark volume Law in a Therapeutic Key. In January 2005, Winick and Wexler spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about the relationship between problem-solving justice and therapeutic jurisprudence.
Kevin Burke helped lead the effort to create the Hennepin County Drug Court in 1997, and advocated for the creation of the Hennepin County Mental Health Court as well. Appointed to the bench in 1984, he currently serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas Law School. The Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon spoke with Judge Burke about problem-solving justice.
Judge Jorge Simón served as the presiding judge at the Hartford Community Court in Hartford, Connecticut, from January 2003 unitl 2006. Judge Simón spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about the community court and how it works.
In 2009, Jonathan Lippman was named Chief Judge of New York State courts by Gov. David Paterson. Prior to being named chief judge, he served as the chief administrative judge to Judith S. Kaye and as the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Judicial Department. Judge Lippman has long been an advocate of problem-solving judicial reform (see, for example this op-ed).
Good Courts is the first book to describe the problem-solving court movement and features in-depth looks at Center for Court Innovation projects like the Midtown Community Court and Red Hook Community Justice Center, as well as other projects around the country, like Oregon’s Portland Community Court. By the Center for Court Innovation's founding director John Feinblatt and current director Greg Berman, Good Courts reviews the growing body of evidence that the problem-solving approach to justice is indeed producing positive results.
A summary of focus groups of judges in New York and California examining which practices of problem-solving courts can be integrated into conventional court operations.
