This report describes the nature and scope of children's exposure to violence in eight sites nationwide that were selected to participate in the Attorney General's Defending Childhood demonstration program. This report describes the strategies the sites chose and draws key lessons from the planning phase.
This report attempts to synthesize the various goals that community prosecution initiatives have adopted, identifies the objectives associated with these goals, and develops performance measures that can be used to evaluate whether those goals and objectives are met.
Awarded the 2011 PASS Award, this comic-book guide highlights the lessons to be learned from demonstration projects that seek to reform the criminal justice system.
What are the most important goals of statewide coordination? This fact sheet answers that question by outlining the experience of five states: California, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland and New York.
A comprehensive evaluation of the Bronx Family Treatment Court, the report assesses court impacts on permanency outcomes and includes findings from an in-depth survey of parent-respondents, both in the Family Treatment Court and the traditional family court. The analysis of administrative court data found that the Family Treatment Court had little impact on child permanency outcomes.
In this interview, Michael Rempel, the Center for Court Innovation's director of research, discusses practical lessons that can assist researchers in the successful execution of randomized trials in criminal court settings. The interview was conducted by 4researchers.org, a website concerned with research design and methodology.
The Permanency Achievement Kit (PAK) is a resource designed to help youth and their families understand and navigate family court permanency planning proceedings. The PAK includes information about the rights of young people in foster care, how decisions are made about where young people will live during and after foster care, and how young people can communicate effectively with their lawyers and caseworkers.
The National Institute of Justice's Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation (MADCE) tested whether drug courts reduce drug use, crime, and associated problems; assessed how drug courts work and for whom; and analyzed cost savings in 23 drug courts and six comparison sites.
