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John Feinblatt, senior advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and founding director of the Midtown Community Court, talks about the principles that guided the creation of the Midtown Community Court.

Many communities across the country grapple with how best to respond to prostitution.

Dan Cipullo, director of the Criminal Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, discusses why and how the court expanded its community court approach from one neighborhood to cover the entire city.

This film produced by the Center for Court Innovation and the U.S. Department of Justice tells the story of community justice, which seeks to reduce incarceration and strengthen public confidence in justice by transforming the relationship between justice agencies and the neighborhoods they serve. The film includes interviews with judges, lawyers, police officers and others from initiatives across the U.S., including the Midtown Community Court in New York, the South Dallas Community Court in Texas, and Newark Community Solutions in New Jersey.

Herb Sturz--the subject of a new book, A Kind of Genius, by New York Times reporter Sam Roberts--talks about innovation, the power of private-public collaborations, the founding of the Midtown Community Court, and his current work at the Open Society Institute.

A description of Community Impact Panels, a unique response to quality-of-life offenses piloted by the Midtown Community Court, published in Networks, the journal of the National Center for Victims of Crime. A longer version of the article is available here.

This study examines the impact of the Midtown Community Court, as compared with Manhattan's traditional centralized criminal court, on case processing and sentencing outcomes.

A look at the early years of the groundbreaking Midtown Community Court. This 12 minute video, which was produced in 1996, is narrated by Charles Kuralt.