Characterizing community courts

Gal, Tali; Dancig-Rosenberg, Hadar

doi:10.1002/bsl.2310

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“…Paradoxically, criminal justice systems worldwide are constantly developing alternatives to formalistic approaches to criminal punishments (e.g. Stolle et al ., ; Wexler, ; Gal & Dancig‐Rosenberg, ). The expanding paradigm of therapeutic jurisprudence explores how insights from psychiatry, psychology, criminology and social work are useful to the law and how they can simultaneously be consistent with the due process framework (Wexler, ).…”

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Young children's perceptions of due process in schools’ disciplinary procedures

Perry‐Hazan

Lambrozo

2018

British Educational Res J

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This study explored how children of lower primary school grades perceive due process in schools’ disciplinary procedures. While many studies have explored how adolescents perceive school discipline, only a few studies have examined the perceptions of primary school pupils, and no study has investigated lower primary school grades. The qualitative research design was based on semi‐structured interviews and focus groups with 70 children, aged 7 to 10, recruited from 19 public schools in Israel. In addition, we recruited a children's advisory group that participated in the research process. The findings revealed that while many of the study participants had internalised a formalistic approach to due process (i.e. meting out uniform punishments in similar cases, in accordance with a closed system of rules), others objected to this approach, providing various reasons for their concerns. Participants’ criticisms of a formalistic due process policy included lack of compassion and lack of understanding of pupils’ social, academic or other difficulties, disregard of pupils’ voice, the complex task of discerning the truth, apprehension over a uniform punitive system and low efficacy of punishments. We argue that the right to due process in schools lies at the intersection of legal and educational narratives. Even young children are able to recognise the inherent incongruity of these narratives, as they constitute a significant part of their daily routine in school. We also argue that this incongruity engenders a distorted due process, thus imparting faulty lessons about the right to due process and its justifications.

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Young children's perceptions of due process in schools’ disciplinary procedures

Perry‐Hazan

Lambrozo

2018

British Educational Res J

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“…The second wave was carried out in 2018-21 as part of an evaluation study of the Israeli CCs, which ended in 2022 (hereinafter, the evaluation study). The evaluation study includes a comparative analysis of post-sentencing recidivism rates of graduates of CCs and defendants who have had similar chances to be referred to the program but were not referred and instead were sentenced in mainstream courts, showing reduced recidivism rates of the former (Gal, Dancig-Rosenberg, and Mentovich 2023).…”

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“…Each CC handles approximately 100 to 150 cases annually. The program's completion rate is approximately 50 percent (Gal, Dancig-Rosenberg, and Mentovich 2023).…”

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“…In 2014–15, the first two CCs were established in Israel. Two cities—Be’er-Sheva and Ramle—were selected to serve as sites for the pilot stage of the project because of their highly heterogeneous populations, with multiple social problems, and the openness to address these problems using innovative justice interventions (Gal and Dancig-Rosenberg 2017). In 2016, the Israeli government decided to establish CCs in each judicial district in the country.…”

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Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts

Dancig-Rosenberg,

Gal

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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This study challenges the conventional approach to the appropriate indicators of individual success in community courts (CCs) by exploring the different meanings that CC professionals ascribe to the term “success.” CCs conduct a non-adversarial process in which team members collaborate to provide a comprehensive rehabilitative intervention for recidivist participants. We conducted fifty-three in-depth interviews with CC personnel between 2016 and 2020. According to the interviewees, standard evaluation measures such as program completion, reduced recidivism, and systemic reduction of incarceration are necessary for evaluating these courts. Yet individual success is relative, subjective, multidimensional, and must be understood as a continuum. Therefore, it should also be measured by looking at significant processes of change that participants have undergone in various aspects of their lives. Study findings can be translated into measurable well-being indicators, moving the “what works” discourse forward to include more nuanced and diverse manifestations of success in studies evaluating specialized courts.

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“…The issue moves further into the criminal justice system by looking at mental health courts (Landess & Holoyda, , pp. 501–511), and we provide an international perspective on community courts in Israel (Gal & Dancig‐Rosenberg, , pp. 523–539).…”

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