Research

Video

Drug Courts: Personal Stories

Drug Courts: Personal Stories features drug court graduates who, after many years of personal struggle and involvement in the criminal justice system, finally pulled their lives together.

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Publications

What Makes A Court Problem-Solving: Universal Performance Indicators for Problem-Solving Justice

By Adam Mansky, Rachel Porter and Michael Rempel

This report establishes a set of universal performance indicators against which to judge the success of specialized problem-solving courts.

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Video

Testing New Ideas: Evidence, Innovation and Community Courts

This film produced by the Center for Court Innovation and the Bureau of Justice Assistance tells the story of community courts, which have been developing creative responses to crime since the first community court was founded in Manhattan in 1993. The film includes footage from the Midtown Community Court, the South Dallas Community Court, Newark Community Solutions, and interviews with judges, lawyers, police officers and others from across the United States.

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Publications

A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts

By Sarah Picard-Fritsche, Melissa Labriola, Samantha Moore, Chris S. O'Sullivan and Michael Rempel

This study explores the goals, policies, and practices of criminal domestic violence courts nationwide.

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Publications

Procedural Fairness in California: Initiatives, Challenges, and Recommendations

By Rachel Porter

This report, commissioned by the Administrative Office of the Courts in California, describes initiatives under way in California's civil and traffic courts to improve public perceptions of procedural fairness. The report also contains a brief self-assessment tool that court administrators can use to examine procedural fairness in their local jurisdictions.

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