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 this interview, John Stuart, the state public defender of Minnesota, talks about leadership, collaboration, and innovation from the public defense perspective.
In this interview, Randall Shepard, the former chief judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, discusses the role of the judiciary in spurring innovation in the court and system-wide.
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.
This presentation—with audio commentary provided by Aubrey Fox and Emily Gold—highlights the main findings of a national survey of more than 600 police chiefs, state chief judges, elected prosecutors, and probation and parole officials on their views on innovation and leadership