This guide for participants is one of four manuals that, together, explain how drug court teams can create a program to help drug court participants pursue higher education. The Practitioners Manual provides a road map for the entire program, which gives step-by-step guidance to participants enrolling in and seeking financial aid for college.
This report provides a process evaluation of eight specialized reentry courts participating in a multi-year, multi-site study. Among the major findings, the eight sites all use an evidence-based risk/need assessment tool and target moderate- and/or high-risk offenders.
Transatlantic Learning, a new report by the Centre for Justice Innovation, documents the visit of three American problem-solving court judges to Scotland in September 2012. The report offers thoughts about how to build a better court system in Scotland.
Payback with a Purpose discusses the experience of practitioners in delivering more meaningful "community payback" ("community service" in the USA) in New York City. The paper identifies nine key principles for effective community payback.
This fact-sheet summary of the research publication, Testing a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, outlines an evaluation of Save Our Streets (SOS), a community-based project established to address the problem of gunviolence in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
This article describes Native American peacemaking as an alternative to the Canadian justice system's "overreliance on punitive and isolationsist tactics." Published in Policy Options, February 2013.
This impact evaluation of 24 New York domestic violence courts found reduced re-arrests among convicted offenders. The courts that prioritized deterring recidivism, sanctioning noncompliant offenders, and addressing victims' safety and service needs had a greater impact on re-arrest than other courts.