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Siegel Scholars Announced (and Other News)

Developed in partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Alfred Siegel Scholarship Fund honors Alfred Siegel, the Center for Court Innovation’s deputy director who passed away last year.

Meaningful Alternatives to Incarceration

Each year, the Center for Court Innovation helps to reduce the use of jail in New York by providing meaningful alternatives to incarceration to tens of thousands of defendants.

The Center for Court Innovation’s work to prevent violence in New York.

A few years ago, the Center for Court Innovation opened Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Crown Heights.

Who Commits Misdemeanors?

Today's Wall Street Journal features an op-ed entitled A Surprising Portrait of the Misdemeanor Criminal by Greg Berman.

New Website for Disconnected Youth

The Center for Court Innovation’s Youth Justice Board is pleased to announce the launch of NextMoveNYC.org, a mobile website designed to help disconnected young people achieve their goals.

I Got Arrested—Now What?

At the Center for Court Innovation, we have an abiding interest in helping the justice system improve the ways that it reaches out to, and speaks with, the public

Rethinking the Response to Human Trafficking

Many justice reformers have come to recognize that prostitution is often a form of human trafficking and that the standard response to these cases—fines and jail time—requires significant rethinking.

Summer 2014 Update

Here is some recent news from the Center for Court Innovation.

New from the Center for Court Innovation

Here are some of the latest products from the Center for Court Innovation, all of which are available at www.courtinnovation.org.

Improving Justice for Adolescents in the Criminal Justice System

The Criminal Justice Response to 16- and 17-Year-Old Defendants in New York, a new study from researchers at the Center for Court Innovation, documents how the justice system handles 16- and 17-year-old defendants across New York State.

Community Justice 2014 Draws International Audience

Participants from more than 75 U.S. jurisdictions and 10 countries gathered in San Francisco for Community Justice 2014, an international summit on how to reduce crime and incarceration while improving public trust in justice.

Evaluation: Mental Health Services Help Reduce Recidivism Among Teens

The Center for Court Innovation has released an evaluation of QUEST Futures, a program that provides intensive case management and family support services for young people with mental health problems facing delinquency charges in Queens.

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