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.
Judge Eileen Koretz presided over the Midtown Community Court from 1997 until 2006. Before being appointed to the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1995, she was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County for nearly two decades. She sat down to talk about the Midtown Community Court's award-winning computer technology.
A look at the Midtown Community Court's responses in the 1990s to prostitution in Times Square and surrounding neighborhoods. This article appeared in the Volume 22/23 (2001) of the Justice System Journal. For information on more recently implemented strategies to address prostitution, see Prostitution Diversion Programs.
An analysis of the lessons learned from the Midtown Community Court and the issues that are raised when justice is administered on a neighborhood level.
The executive summary of Part II of the original evaluation of the country's first community court--the Midtown Community Court. The second phase focused on impacts on recidivism rates for select sub-groups of defendants; examined impacts on jail costs after accounting for "secondary jail sentences"; explored other cost and benefit implications; and surveyed the opinions of community residents.
The executive summary of Part I of the original evaluation of the country's first community court--the Midtown Community Court. Includes a comprehensive description of the court and an analysis on the degree to which the court met each of its goals. The executive summary of Part II is available here.
