An overview of the Domestic Violence Online Petition Program, which seeks to improve victim safety by allowing a petitioner—with help from a trained domestic violence advocate—to use the internet to file the application for an order of protection.
Ensuring meaningful access to justice for Limited English Proficient (LEP) litigants is an essential responsibility of the justice system. To gauge the status of language access services for litigants in domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking cases, the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for State Courts conducted a needs assessment of courts, government agencies, and community-based organizations.
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.
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 report presents the results of an evaluation assessing the impact of a community-based mental health intervention known as QUEST Futures on recidivism and other juvenile delinquency outcomes among 392 justice-involved youth (15 years or younger) in New York City. Among other findings, results show that participation in QUEST Futures contributes to reduced felony level re-offending.
Article in the COPS Dispatch about the release of “Law Enforcement and Public Health: Sharing Resources and Strategies to Make Communities Safer,” which summarizes the first in a series of roundtable discussions on burgeoning public health and public safety collaborations across the country.
The COPS Office of the U.S. Department of Justice published a series of articles on procedural justice. Emily Gold explores how lessons learned from the Center's Improving Courtroom Communication project may help police departments enhance perceptions of fairness among the communities they work, while simultaneously reducing crime.
The report suggests that by embracing principles of fairness, swiftness, authority and a focus on people as well as cases, our criminal courts can do more to reduce crime and make better use of resources. The report highlights 11 case studies that exemplify better court innovation.
In 2009, the Center for Court Innovation received funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to enhance drug court programming for young adults in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New York. As part of that effort, experts from around the country participated in a roundtable discussion about the challenges of young adults in drug courts and explored some promising practices for meeting their needs. This report summarizes that discussion.
