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ABA Division for Public Education.
A comprehensive Web site on legal education. The mission of the ABA Division for Public Education is to promote public understanding of law and its role in society. Explores the best possible concepts for legal education.
Public Trust and Confidence Programs -- Lack of Public Understanding.
Describes projects and initiatives designed to increase public trust and confidence in the judicial system.
Public Trust News.
Information about innovative and effective state and local programs that increase the public’s trust and confidence in the justice system. This newsletter is a continuation of efforts to enhance and support state court strategies in the area of public trust and confidence initiated by the National Conference on Public Trust and Confidence in the Justice System.
Laura Kiernan
Risky Business: New Hampshire`s Experience Inviting Citizens to Examine the State Courts.
Journal of Court Innovation (2008).
This report discusses a new strategy by the New Hampshire State Court system to involve citizens in matters of judicial reform. Kiernan's analysis involves the insights of several respected members of the court community as well as members from the National Center for State Courts.
"Racine County Drug and Alcohol Treatment Court Begins Hearing Cases."
Wisconsin Court System (February 2006).
This article announces the opening of a pilot drug and alcohol treatment court which was created from successful court-community negotiations, as well as details the history of positive court-community relations in Wisconsin.
Report and Recommendations of the Court Community Observers Project in the District of Columbia Superior Court and Its Civil Division.
Washington, DC: Council for Court Excellence (2001).
The Council for Court Excellence conducted its first court observation project in the Civil Division of the D.C. Superior Court in the first half of 2001. Court observation involves recruiting a corps of persons from the community to observe a particular court over a several-month period, recording their perspectives in a controlled format, and then issuing a public report of the observers' findings and recommendations.
Fruin, Richard.
Judicial Outreach on a Shoestring: A Working Manual.
Chicago: American Bar Association (1999).
This workbook provides examples of different judicial outreach programs developed with little or no funding. It includes examples from Michigan, Florida, Los Angeles, Texas, Colorado, and others. (KF8700 .F78 1999)
Berman, Greg, and David Anderson.
Engaging the Community: A Guide for Community Justice Planners.
New York: Center for Court Innovation (1997).
The sixteen-page paper discusses how one builds stronger connections within one's community in an effort to provide justice and focuses on the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
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Oakland County Youth Assistance Program.
Part of the programs and services division of the Oakland County 6th Judicial Court, the community-based Youth Assistance Program’s mission is to strengthen youth and families and to prevent and reduce delinquency, neglect, and abuse through volunteer involvement.
Mullins, Tracy Godwin.
Select Topics on Youth Courts: A Monograph.
Federal Youth Court Program (May 2004).
This work describes how different courts have worked with communities to create successful youth courts, such as in tribal communities, after-school courts, and state-wide courts. (Click on link, scroll down to "Monograph" and click download)
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Goldkamp, J. S., D. Weiland, and C. Irons-Guynns.
Developing an Evaluation Plan for Community Courts.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (2001).
An assessment of the Hartford Community Court Model. This report addresses some of the issues that the model was attempting to correct, who the model's participants were, and role of community involvement in the development of the court model.
Lee, Eric.
"Community Courts: An Evolving Model."
Community Justice Series, no. 2, U.S. Department of Justice, Center for Court Innovation (2000).
This paper illustrates the role of courts in solving neighborhood problems and creating stronger communities. The author explores several court models and addresses issues that arise in the development of community courts.
Wiedner, Robert.
Hartford Community Court: Origins, Expectations and Implementation .
New York: Center for Court Innovation, U.S. Department for Justice (1999).
Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this report documents the growth of community-oriented courts following the success of the Midtown Community Court. Harford, Connecticut was the second jurisdiction to follow the trend of established community-based courts.
Dispensing Justice Locally: The Implementation and Effects of the Midtown Community Court.
New York: Center for Court Innovation, Fund for the City of New York; National Center for State Courts; John Jay College (1997).
This paper documents the 1993 opening of the Midtown Community Court and the challenges it faced in trying to foster connections within the Manhattan community. The analysis reports that the court itself was successful in increasing compliance with community service sentences and reducing quality-of-life problems.
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ABA Coalition for Justice.
The Coalition for Justice helps to coordinate the ABA Justice Initiatives Programs, encouraging access, raising public awareness, and developing public/bar partnerships with national organizations and federal agencies on justice system issues. Its goal is to help restore public confidence in the justice system by developing a broad-based network of organizations that will support and participate in justice system improvements at the state and local level.
Center for Court Innovation.
The Center functions as the New York State Unified Court System's independent research and development arm, investigating chronic problems and field-testing new programs in response. Nationally, the center disseminates the lessons learned from its experiments in New York.
Community Justice Exchange.
The Community Justice Exchange offers information and assistance to bring together criminal justice agencies and ordinary citizens to make communities safer. Provides information and assistance to community justice planners across the country.
Dialogue: Courts Reaching Out to Their Communities: A Handbook for Creating and Enhancing Court and Community Collaboration.
Judicial Council of California, Special Task Force on Court/Community Outreach. (1999).
This comprehensive handbook includes resources and tools to help courts improve communication with the public, work with the community to solve community problems, and building positive relationships with court stakeholders.
Rottman, David
Courts and Community Collaboration.
National Center for State Courts (March 1998).
Courts and communities increasingly work together to confront problems such as substance abuse, declining quality of life conditions, family violence, and racial, ethnic, and gender bias.
Rottman, David B. et al.
Court and Community Collaboration: Ends and Means.
(February 1998).
From the California Court and Community Collaboration, excerpts for the original document prepared by NCSC authors as part of its Community-Focused Court Development Initiative.
Feinblatt, John, and Greg Berman.
Responding to the Community: Principles for Planning and Creating a Community Court.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (1997).
This article in the Bureau of Justice Assistance Bulletin addresses how courts fail to meet the needs of the community and how community justice planners can change the way their courts interact with their communities.
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