How a planner for a neighborhood-based court in Brooklyn negotiated some of the early challenges of the project, including community needs assessment, fund-raising and program design.
The executive summary of Part II of the original evaluation of the country's first community court--the Midtown Community Court. The second phase focused on impacts on recidivism rates for select sub-groups of defendants; examined impacts on jail costs after accounting for "secondary jail sentences"; explored other cost and benefit implications; and surveyed the opinions of community residents.
The executive summary of Part I of the original evaluation of the country's first community court--the Midtown Community Court. Includes a comprehensive description of the court and an analysis on the degree to which the court met each of its goals. The executive summary of Part II is available here.
This is the book form of Dispensing Justice Locally (PART 1): The Implementation and Effects of the Midtown Community Court. Published by Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 2000.
