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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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    Fact Sheet: Brooklyn Felony Alternatives-to-Incarceration Court

    The Brooklyn Felony Alternatives-to-Incarceration Court offers community-based interventions and rigorous judicial monitoring, decreasing the use of jail and prison sentences and leading to reduced criminal dispositions.

    Rethinking Incarceration
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    Fact Sheet: Brooklyn Justice Initiatives

    An overview of Brooklyn Justice Initiatives, a program that seeks to forge a new response to misdemeanor and non-violent felony defendants in Kings County, New York.

    Bail Reform
  • Publication

    Reducing Jail and Protecting Victims: A Roundtable on Pretrial Supervised Release

    by Julian Adler and Katie Crank

    In January 2016, jail reduction and victim advocates discussed strategies for including the voices of survivors of crime in implementing pretrial supervised release programs. This document highlights the far-reaching and complicated discussion. 

    Bail Reform, Diversion, Risk Assessment
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    An Experiment in Bail Reform: Examining the Impact of the Brooklyn Supervised Release Program

    by Josephine Hahn

    This report presents findings from a study examining the impact of the Brooklyn Supervised Release Program, which engages misdemeanants who cannot afford relatively low bail amounts. 

    Bail Reform
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    The Short Answer: How Does the Supervised Release Program at Brooklyn Justice Initiatives Fit Into the Court System's Bail Reform Efforts?

    New York State Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks responds to the question: How does the supervised release program at Brooklyn Justice Initiatives fit into the court system's bail reform efforts?

    Bail Reform
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    Alternatives to Incarceration: The New York Story

    by Greg Berman and Robert V. Wolf

    In this article from the Winter 2014 issue of the Government, Law, and Policy Journal of the New York Bar Association, Greg Berman and Robert V. Wolf examine the wide range of alternative-to-incarceration initiatives being pioneered by the New York State courts.

    Bail Reform
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    Brooklyn Justice Intiatives

    This Brooklyn Justice Initiatives annual report outlines the first year of a supervised release program that aims to reduce pre-trial detention for misdemeanor defendants in Brooklyn, New York.

    Bail Reform, Problem-Solving Justice, Community Justice
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