Deputy Inspector Michael Kemper is the commanding officer of the New York Police Department’s 76th Precinct, one of the three police precincts served by the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the one that incorporates the Red Hook neighborhood itself. The 76th precinct was recently named #1 in New York City in crime reduction over the past two years. In February 2008, Deputy Inspector Kemper spoke to Center staff about this impressive achievement.
John Feinblatt and Jonathan Lippman describe the Center for Court Innovation to the judges for the award. The Center was named a winner of the Award by the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1998.
This curriculum is intended to provide practitioners with the tools to initiate their own problem-solving initiative and to assist court managers, judicial trainers, and others in putting on trainings at the local level.
An edited transcript of a daylong conversation among 20 national experts as they explored options for improving criminal court responses to domestic violence, with particular focus on batterer program mandates, judicial monitoring, probation supervision, and victim advocacy.
Based on surveys conducted in 2004 and 2005, this report documents community feedback on quality of life, public safety, community resources, and criminal justice agencies in five New York City neighborhoods.
As the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Court Operations and Planning for New York State, Judge Kluger is responsible for overseeing specialized courts across the state. In October 2007 she spoke with Center staff about New York’s new mental health court initiative.
Originally published by The New Press, Good Courts has been re-issued by Quid Pro Books with a new introduction by New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Good Courts is the first book to document the movement toward problem-solving justice. The authors offer case studies from the field; review the growing evidence that the problem-solving approach is effective; and tackle the principal criticisms that problem-solving reforms have generated.
This descriptive study documents the current domestic violence policies and practices of town and village justice courts located in one rural county of upstate, New York. The report highlights the challenges faced by many rural jurisdictions in implementing domestic violence best practices and measures the effectiveness of a traditional training for small jurisdictions.