Research

Policy Exchange, a London think tank, hosts a discussion with Greg Berman from the Center for Court Innovation and John Prideaux of The Economist to celebrate the release of Daring to Fail: First Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform.

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. (February 2012)

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By Robert C. Davis, Donald J. Farole, Jr., Chris S. O'Sullivan and Michael Rempel

A study comparing recidivism rates, victim satisfaction, and costs of filing all domestic violence cases with the court vs. declining to file cases when the victim opposes prosecution. Published in Criminology and Public Policy, Volume 7, Issue 4 (November 2008), and available from Wiley InterScience online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121645493/abstract.

By Robert C. Davis, Donald J. Farole, Jr., Chris S. O'Sullivan and Michael Rempel

This study compares case outcomes, victim satisfaction, and costs in a jurisdiction where the DA’s Office typically declines to file cases when the victim opposes prosecution (the Bronx) with a jurisdiction where the DA’s Office has a universal filing policy (Brooklyn).

A white paper looking at the history and accomplishments of the Center for Court Innovation.

By Staff of the Center for Court Innovation

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.

Judge Wendy Lindley offers a preview of the Orange County Community Justice Center. (November 2008)