This compendium provides contact information for 208 criminal domestic violence courts in the United States as of December 2009. These courts handle criminal domestic violence cases on a separate calendar or assign criminal domestic violence cases to one or more dedicated judges or judicial officers.
Rosalind Jeffers joined the Dallas City Attorney’s Office in 2005, serving as the community prosecutor assigned to the South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood and as assistant director of the South Dallas Community Court. After two years in the Community Prosecution Section, Ms. Jeffers moved to the Employment Section. In 2008, she returned to the Community Prosecution Section as its chief. She spoke with Robert V.
With funding from the State Justice Institute, the Center for Court Innovation sought to test whether it was possible to create a court screening tool capable of efficiently identifying victims of trafficking and engaging them in needed services. This short report summarizes the implementation of this experiment and offers lessons for other jurisdictions interested in improving their response to trafficking.
An examination of the controversy over D.A.R.E., one of the most well-known and widespread crime prevention programs in the country, which has thrived despite research showing less-than-inspiring results. This paper unpacks the complicated relationship between research and practice, drawing lessons for future programming.
The Toolkit contains curriculum and other resources for schools, after-school programs, and not-for-profit organizations that are interested in engaging young people in local policy development.
An overview of the research literature on specialized domestic violence courts, this paper provides a summary of the current state of the field, an analyses of domestic violence court characteristics and goals, and a review of major research findings concerning court impacts on case processing, stakeholder coordination, informed decision-making, offender accountability, recidivism, victim safety, and victim services.