Barbara Smith is currently serving her third term as Chief Justice of the Chickasaw Nation Supreme Court. Prior to this appointment, she served as District Court Judge for the Chickasaw Nation. In this interview she discusses the importance of understanding Native culture in the courtroom, and the role of peacemaking in tribal justice systems. This interview was originally published in the Fall 2009 Journal of Court Innovation.
Judge Wahwassuck currently serves as Associate Judge of the Leech Lake Tribal Court. She has been a leader in developing the first joint jurisdiction tribal-state courts in the nation: the Leech Lake-Cass County Wellness Court, developed in 2006, and the Leech Lake-Itasca County Wellness Court, developed in 2007. Here she describes the creation of these historic partnerships and the importance of tribal-state court collaboration. This interview was originally published in the Fall 2009 Journal of Court Innovation.
Harry B. Wallace has served as Chief of the Unkechaug Indian Nation since 1994. He is a licensed attorney in New York State. The Unkechaug people reside on the Poospatuck Reservation on Long Island, New York.
A description of Community Impact Panels, a unique response to quality-of-life offenses piloted by the Midtown Community Court, published in Networks, the journal of the National Center for Victims of Crime. A longer version of the article is available here.
This study sought to understand how teenagers in a low-income and geographically isolated area of Brooklyn think about and engage in delinquent behavior using individual interview, focus group, and survey data.
This podcast includes observations from the presiding judge, Alex Calabrese, and short interviews by Director of Communications Robert V. Wolf with the Brooklyn D.A.'s Chief Assistant District Attorney Anne Swern and Captain Kenneth Corey, commander of the 76th Precinct.