Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation talks to Nat de Friend, the Head of Effective Practice at the Youth Justice Board. The Youth Justice Board was established in England and Wales in 1998 with a national mandate to oversee the youth justice system. At the time of the interview, the Youth Justice Board was expected to be abolished by the new government, but that decision was reversed at the last minute. In the interview, de Friend talks about how a national organization like the Youth Justice Board has approached the challenge of encouraging innovation at the local level.
In this interview, Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation speaks with Grant Sugden, the Operational Manager of the Charity Organization Circle, about working with women offenders in the criminal justice system. Circle has been based at the Scottish women’s prison Cornton Vale in 2007, and recently expanded to HMP Addiewell to work with prisoners who are fathers.
Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation talks to London Probation Trust Chief Executive Heather Munro about the challenges of motivating her staff to take risks and try new things, her commitment to greater offender engagement in the design of services, and her ideas for improving the criminal justice system more generally.
This article was released by the UK charity the Young Foundation in 2008 and called for the creation of a Centre for Justice Innovation in England and Wales.
Dan Cipullo, director of the Criminal Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, discusses why and how the court expanded its community court approach from one neighborhood to cover the entire city.
Kurt Sandstrom, assistant deputy minister of Alberta Justice in Alberta, Canada discusses his province's efforts to break cycles of offending with integrated, evidence-based services.
Crown Counsel Adam Dalrymple explains how the Downtown Vancouver Community Court uses community service assignments to match offenders with organizations that address their social service needs.
Burke Fitzpatrick administers the Office of Justice Programs in South Carolina's Department of Public Safety, which distributes federal justice dollars to programs in the state. In this interview, he explains why he thinks problem-solving courts have been a good investment and what he looks for in a funding application.
A new building in Milliken, Colorado, houses a community court, police station and social services in an effort to foster collaboration among agencies and be more user-friendly for both the public and staff. Jim Burack, town administrator and chief of police, discusses the logic behind the building's design.
