This short video is a companion to Drug Courts: Personal Stories, a book that features drug court graduates who, after many years of personal struggle and involvement in the criminal justice system, finally pulled their lives together.
Meet Theresa, an alumni member of the Youth Justice Board, a leadership and civic engagement program in New York City. The Youth Justice Board brings together a group of teens to investigate an issue that deeply affects young people and develop policy proposals based on their research.
Judge Rowley has been instrumental in shaping the family treatment court model in New York State, having founded the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court in 2001. In 2007, he was elected president of the New York Association of Drug Treatment Court Professionals.
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.
