Greg Berman
Senior Fellow
As part of the founding team responsible for creating the Center, Greg Berman served as director of the organization from 2002-2020, helping to guide the Center from start-up to an annual budget of more than $80 million. Under his leadership, the Center won numerous national awards, including the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-profit Innovation. He is the author/co-author of Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration (The New Press, 2018), Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration: Essays on Criminal Justice Innovation (Quid Pro Books, 2014), Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure (Urban Institute Press, 2010) and Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice (The New Press, 2005). Prior to being named director of the Center for Court Innovation in 2002, he served as deputy director of the Center and as the lead planner of the Red Hook Community Justice Center. He has served on numerous boards and task forces including: New York City Board of Correction (appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg), New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, Coro New York, Centre for Justice Innovation UK (chair), Sloan Public Service Awards, Poets House, Police Foundation, Mayor Bill de Blasio public safety transition team, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance transition team, and the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a former Coro Fellow in Public Affairs.
Publications
Publications Results
- Toward Misdemeanor Justice: Lessons from New York City
- Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
- Advancing Community Justice: The Challenge of Brownsville, Brooklyn
- Alternatives to Incarceration: The New York Story
- Police & Community: Strengthening Legitimacy
- Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration
- The F-Word: Learning from Failure in Criminal Justice Reform in the USA
- Small Sanities
- Procedural Justice From the Bench: How Judges Can Improve the Effectiveness of Criminal Courts
- Lasting Change or Passing Fad? Problem-Solving Justice in England and Wales
- Combining Research and Practice: The Center for Court Innovation’s approach to justice reform
- From Chicago to Brooklyn: A Case Study in Program Replication
- Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure
- Criminal Justice Reform: A Key Role for Failure
- Principles of Community Justice: A Guide for Community Court Planners
- Lessons from the Battle over D.A.R.E.: The Complicated Relationship between Research and Practice
- Embracing Failure: Lessons for Court Managers
- Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice
- Trial and Error: Failure and Innovation in Criminal Justice Reform
- Learning from Failure: A Roundtable on Criminal Justice Innovation
- Blueprint for Change Executive Summary
- Justice in Red Hook
- Community Justice Centres: A US-UK Exchange
- Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice
- Public Safety and National Service
- The Hardest Sell? Problem-Solving Justice and the Challenges of Statewide Implementation
- Risks and Rewards: Drug Courts and Community Reintegration
- Problem-Solving Justice: A Quiet Revolution
- Going to Scale: A Conversation About the Future of Drug Courts
- Judges and Problem-Solving Courts
- Rethinking the Revolving Door: A Look at Mental Illness in the Courts
- From the Margins to the Mainstream: Community Justice at the Crossroads
- What is a Traditional Judge Anyway? Problem-Solving in the State Courts
- New York's Problem-Solving Courts Provide Meaningful Alternatives to Traditional Remedies
- Service and Safety: The Story of the Red Hook Public Safety Corps
- Engaging the Community: A Guide for Community Justice Planners
- Drugs, Courts and Neighborhoods: Community Reintegration and the Brooklyn Treatment Court
- Informed Decisions: Technology in the Courtroom
- Neighborhood Justice: Lessons Learned from Midtown Community Court
- Red Hook Diary: Planning a Community Court