The graduation of seven fathers serves as a jumping off point for Liberty Aldrich, director of the Center for Court Innovation's family and domestic violence programming, to discuss the Kings County Parent Support Program, which links non-custodial parents with needed services to increase child support payments and maintain healt
This report examines a project to improve drug court screening and referral protocols and increase access to vocational and education services, in a well-established drug court in Syracuse, New York. The enhancement did not result in significant improvements to either drug court access or referral time; the project did result in some improvements in service provision.
Gail Pendleton, co-director of ASISTA, which advises and trains advocates and attorneys who work with immigrant survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, discusses some of the complex issues non-citizen survivors face. July 2012
This monograph, published by the Centre for Justice Innovation with the assistance of the Probation Chiefs Association, identifies five key factors that have allowed seven Probation Trusts in England and Wales to continue to deliver high-intensity community sentence projects despite cuts in funding from the central government. This paper was underwritten by the Hadley Trust.
This Urban Institute evaluation of two mental health courts in New York City finds that mental health court participants are significantly less likely to recidivate, as compared to similar offenders with mental illness who experience business-as-usual court processing.
This report presents on the findings of several exploratory research projects focused on NYC Community Cleanup, a citywide program that supervises low-level offenders sentenced to perform community restitution. Overall, both justice stakeholders and offenders had a positive perception of NYC Community Cleanup and the value of community restitution in paying back the community for the harm caused by crime.
David Adams, co-founder and co-director of Emerge, the first counseling program in the nation for men who abuse women, discusses the inner workings, challenges, and potential benefits of group counseling for men who batter. (July 2012)
