| The Center for Court Innovation seeks to test innovative approaches to juvenile justice. For example, it has created youth courts that use positive peer pressure to encourage young people who have engaged in wrongdoing to repay the community; youthful offender domestic violence courts that address relationship abuse among teenagers; and alternative-to-detention programs that work with young people arrested for delinquency charges. The goal of all of the Center's juvenile justice projects is to provide troubled young people with the structure and support they need to avoid future delinquent behavior. |
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Providing Meaningful Alternatives to Detention
Working in partnership with the City of New York, the Center has created Queens Engagement Strategies for Teens an experimental after-school program for young people charged with delinquency in Queens Family Court. QUEST seeks to help reduce the use of detention by providing judges with a meaningful alternative.
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Justice Center Partners with Police to Host Harlem Youth Fair
On September 17, 2009, the Harlem Community Justice Center, in collaboration with the New York Police Department, held a youth resource fair at the historic Harlem Armory. The fair was the brainchild of Lt. Kevin O’Connor of Patrol Borough Manhattan North, who asked the Justice Center to help him with the fair.
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
Youth Dating Violence: Can a Court Help Break the Cycle?
By Kristine Herman
An examination of the Brooklyn Youthful Offender Domestic Violence Court and how it addresses the unique and complicated issue of dating violence among teenagers.
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