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Good Courts
Greg Berman
John Feinblatt
Sarah Glazer
其他書名
The Case for Problem-solving Justice
出版
New Press
, 2005
主題
Law / Courts
ISBN
1565849736
9781565849730
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yBZ9QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts.
Public confidence in American criminal courts is at an all-time low. Victims, communities, and even offenders view courts as unable to respond adequately to complex social and legal problems including drugs, prostitution, domestic violence, and quality-of-life crime. Even many judges and attorneys think that the courts produce assembly-line justice. Increasingly embraced by even the most hard-on-crime jurists, problem-solving courts offer an effective alternative. As documented by Greg Berman and John Feinblattboth of whom were instrumental in setting up New York's Midtown Community Court and Red Hook Community Justice Center, two of the nation's premier models for problem-solving justicethese alternative courts reengineer the way everyday crime is addressed by focusing on the underlying problems that bring people into the criminal justice system to begin with. The first book to describe this cutting-edge movement in detail,
Good Courts
features, in addition to the Midtown and Red Hook models, an in-depth look at Oregon's Portland Community Court and reviews the growing body of evidence that the problem-solving approach to justice is indeed producing positive results around the country.