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Books (Trends, JTI, Survey of Jud. Salaries)
Future Trends in State Courts 2006
This long-running series compiled by NCSC’s Knowledge and Information Services office examines trends that courts need to watch. This year’s edition features a section of short essays on “Ten Trends Impacting State Courts” (such as privacy and public access and problem-solving courts), followed by articles that take “A Closer Look” at three key areas: courthouse security, technology, and special courts and programs. Future Trends is available online for download.
Jury Trial Innovations
Courts looking for the latest information on ways to improve jury service can turn to a new edition of Jury Trial Innovations (JTI), NCSC’s best-selling guide to techniques used nationwide to make jury service more appealing to the public and to help jurors become more effective decision makers. The new edition looks at innovations courts have tried in the decade since the first edition was published, especially those involving the model of the “interactive juror” – that is, innovations focused on how to keep jurors actively involved in trial proceedings and how jurors test what they see and hear against their own beliefs and values.
After exploring how jurors make decisions, JTI’s authors discuss innovations in the areas of jury administration and management, voir dire, pretrial management, trial procedures, jury instructions and deliberations, and post-verdict considerations. Sections explore techniques, list their advantages and disadvantages, and cite appropriate court rules, statutes, references, and studies.
Survey of Judicial Salaries
The 2006 edition of Survey of Judicial Salaries (vol. 30, no. 2) takes a broader look at compensation in the courts. This survey not only reports the salaries of judges at all levels as of January 1, 2006, but also looks at how the salaries of court administrators compare to those of other public-sector administrators.
About 60 percent of states reported salary changes for judges or justices, and 65 percent reported changes for state court administrators since the last survey. The average annual change in salaries ranged from 3 to 3.2 percent from 1997 to 2006.
A special section, “How Do Court Manager Salaries Compare to Other Public Sector Administrators?” uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Compensation Survey and the National Association for Court Management’s membership profile survey to develop benchmark salaries for public administration in general and court management in particular.
Examining the Work of State Courts and State Court Caseload Statistics
These popular annual reports from NCSC’s Court Statistics Project offer not only the most up-to-date analysis of state court operations, but also a new online interactive feature that makes them more accessible and easier to understand. Readers are now able to search, copy, and paste information from the report, with the option of customizing their search to a specific state, type of filing, and population.
