Publications & Digital Media

Tips for community justice planners about how to build stronger connections between neighborhoods and the criminal justice system.

A look at how community justice initiatives across the county have used concrete data to define local problems.

The story of how a community court serving 17 neighborhoods and 135,000 residents was organized and launched.

A detailed description of how cases move through the Midtown Community Court.

A comprehensive look at a youth court in Brooklyn, including program structure, lessons learned, challenges and snapshots of real court cases.

Published in Scams and Street Life: the Sociology of New York's Times Square. Robert P. McNamara, ed. Praeger: New York, 1995

Representatives of eight cities discuss how they have adapted the community court model to their neighborhoods' unique needs. Published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice (November 1998)

An analysis of the lessons learned from the Midtown Community Court and the issues that are raised when justice is administered on a neighborhood level.

How a planner for a neighborhood-based court in Brooklyn negotiated some of the early challenges of the project, including community needs assessment, fund-raising and program design.

A description of Midtown Community Court's street outreach program, launched in concert with the New York Police Department.