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    Community Justice Today: Values, Guiding Principles, and Models

    The idea of community justice encompasses a diverse and growing range of evidence-based initiatives which seek to reduce crime by strengthening communities and redressing longstanding inequities. In recognition of the ways in which the approach has evolved over the years, this publication presents a new set of guiding principles of community justice and offers inventive models for putting them into practice, both inside and outside of the courtroom.

    Community Justice
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    Planning a Reentry Program: A Toolkit for Tribal Communities

    Developed with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Planning a Reentry Program: A Toolkit for Tribal Communities is designed to help tribal justice system practitioners create or enhance reentry programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives returning from jail or prison. It also offers guidance for practitioners who are currently working in a reentry program.

    Tribal Justice, Reentry
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    Making Peace in Syracuse, New York: A Process Evaluation of the Near Westside Peacemaking Project

    by Amanda Cissner

    Peacemaking is a traditional Native American approach to justice focused on healing and community restoration, rather than punishment. The Near Westside Peacemaking Project brings this practice to one of Syracuse, New York’s most distressed neighborhoods, offering community members a unique approach to addressing an array of community problems. This report describes the 24-month planning period and the first two years of program implementation, including program structure, goals, caseload, and feedback from participants.

    Community Justice, Restorative Justice
  • Audio

    Designing Decarceration: Architect Deanna Van Buren

    by Matt Watkins

    On our New Thinking podcast, the Oakland-based architect explains her firm’s mission to use design to counter incarceration and promote the use of restorative justice. She also discusses her work on our Near Westside Peacemaking Center in Syracuse, N.Y.

    Diversion, Restorative Justice
  • Publication

    Fact Sheet: Peacemaking Programs

    This fact sheet provides an overview of the Center for Court Innovation’s Peacemaking Programs in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Syracuse, N.Y. Peacemaking, inspired by a traditional Native American approach to justice, focuses on resolving disputes, restoring balance, and healing relationships among those affected by conflict and crime.

    Restorative Justice
  • Publication

    Planning a Problem-Solving Justice Initiative: A Toolkit for Tribal Communities

    Tribal courts around the country are exploring the use of problem-solving justice, which offers a way to blend the adversarial process with more traditional practices that focus on healing and restoration. This toolkit offers tribal justice planners a step-by-step guide to developing effective problem-solving justice initiatives.

     

    Problem-Solving Justice, Tribal Justice, Community Justice
  • Publication

    Peacemaking Circles: Evaluating a Native American Restorative Justice Practice in a State Criminal Court Setting in Brooklyn

    by Suvi Hynynen Lambson

    This study examines the work of the Red Hook Community Justice Center’s Peacemaking Program, which uses traditional Native American practices to resolve disputes. Participants can avoid the justice system by participating in peacemaking sessions and reaching a consensus agreement for restitution and repair.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Diversion, Domestic Violence, Parent Support, Restorative Justice, Tribal Justice, Community Justice
  • Video

    The Red Hook Peacemaking Program

    by Robert V. Wolf and Erika Sasson

    Peacemaking is a traditional Native American approach to justice that focuses on healing and restoration rather than punishment.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Tribal Justice, Community Justice, Restorative Justice
  • Publication

    Red Hook Peacemaking Program: A Different Voice

    by Erika Sasson

    A description of the Peacemaking Program at the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Published on the Kindle Project blog in March 2013.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Restorative Justice, Tribal Justice, Community Justice
  • Publication

    A Different Approach to Justice

    by Erika Sasson

    This article describes Native American peacemaking as an alternative to the Canadian justice system's "overreliance on punitive and isolationsist tactics." Published in Policy Options, February 2013.

    Restorative Justice, Tribal Justice

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