Race, Bias and Problem-Solving Courts

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.

By Richard Curtis, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman and Michele Sviridoff

Published by Harwood Academic Publishers, this book offers the original evaluation of the country's first community court, the Midtown Community Court,examining the court's impacts on local crime, public opinion and jail expeditures.

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