Overcoming Obstacles to Community Courts a Summary of Workshop Proceedings

By Gist, Nancy E.

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Overcoming Obstacles to Community Courts a Summary of Workshop Proceedings
Author:	Gist, Nancy E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


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Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: From the Director. The movement to make our nation?s local justice systems more responsive to the citizens they serve is clearly one of the most important developments in criminal justice in recent years. At the heart of this movement are two innovative tools: community policing and community courts. These tools are bridging the gap between the ideal of responsiveness and the hard, daily work of meting out justice in America?s cities, suburbs, and rural areas. The Overcoming Obstacles Workshop described in this BJA monograph, the first in a new series on community justice, offers us the rare opportunity to listen in as representatives of eight cities discuss how they have adapted the community court model to their neighborhoods? unique needs. Their conversation is valuable because it is frank. Community courts challenge traditional thinking about how the criminal justice system best functions. The inevitable resistance to this change, from both inside and outside the justice system, has created obstacles for community court planners at every stage of the process.

Table of Contents
Contents I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Obstacles and Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Politics: Neighborhoods and the City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Funding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What Kinds of Cases?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 System Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Community Service and Social Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Jail Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Specialty Courts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 III. Selected Remarks of Workshop Speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE v