Vol. 6, No.
4 - Fall 2003
JSJ Highlights
Court Budgets
Courts are struggling
nationwide to make do with less during the current financial downturn.
What can courts do to ensure a brighter budget future? Two articles in
upcoming issues of the National Center for State Courts' Justice System
Journal (JSJ) look at the politics behind court budgets.
Roger E. Hartley (University of
Arizona) and James W. Douglas (University of South Carolina) look at the
relationships of state judiciaries with key budget officials in the executive
and legislative branches in "Budgeting for State Courts: The Perceptions
of Key Officials Regarding the Determinants of Budget Success." They
examine how government officials outside the judiciary perceive the courts and
make suggestions about what courts need to do to improve budgets over both the
short- and the long-term. This article will appear in vol. 24/3 of JSJ in
December 2003.
Hartley and Douglas take a more
local view of court funding in "Sustaining Drug Courts in Arizona and South
Carolina: An Experience in Hodgepodge Budgeting," which will appear in
either vol. 24/3 or 25/1 (due in the spring of 2004). They look at how
drug courts in the two states depend on a mix of ingenuity, opportunism, and
luck to obtain funding from multiple sources-and find that this
"hodgepodge" strategy could threaten the effectiveness of the drug court
movement.
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