Problem-Solving Courts in the United States and Around the World: History, Evaluation, and Recommendations

Miller, Monica K.; Block, Lauren M.; DeVault, Alicia

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“…Queries about TFA are relevant whether individuals indicate heavy internet and social media use, IRL abusive threats or physical harm, or screen positive for PTSD. There is an opportunity to create bridges between different forms of professional assistance, such as victim services that provide technological support, or criminal justice referral networks such as those creating by problem solving courts (Miller et al, 2020). Additionally, technology partnerships to prevent the spread of TFA (Henry et al, 2020; National Network to end Domestic Violence [NNEDV], 2017) as well as hands-on technical assistance for survivors (Strohmayer et al, 2021; Zou et al, 2021) will continue to be part of the solution (see toolkit options at Technology Safety & Privacy Resources, NNEDV).…”

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U.S. Young Adults’ Professional Help-Seeking in Response to Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Mumford

Rothman

Maitra

et al. 2022

J Interpers Violence

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Widespread access to an increasing number of technology-enhanced communications channels multiplies the potential for abusive interactions (i.e., technology-facilitated abuse [TFA]). Practitioners will be better prepared to respond to the problem of TFA if more is known about how commonly victims seek help, and from whom. Through a cross-sectional, U.S. nationally representative survey of n = 1,215 young adults aged 18 to 35, respondents completed the TFA scale of the Cyber-Abuse Research Initiative. We calculated the percentage of TFA survivors who sought help for their most damaging experience of TFA, and used logistic regression to model help-seeking for health services, victim services, technological assistance, and/or criminal justice/legal assistance. For each help source, we examined risk markers including sociodemographic characteristics, online activity, the number of different forms of TFA experience, and the perpetrator’s relationship to the victim. Use of a broader range of social media sites/platforms, and several indicators of more severe TFA experiences, predicted help-seeking from health services, victim services, and justice/legal assistance. Young adults who identified the TFA perpetrator as a current or ex-intimate partner were less likely than other survivors to seek two forms of help: technological assistance and/or criminal justice/legal assistance. Survivors who self-identified as Black were more likely than White survivors to seek victim services. Professionals who support survivors of interpersonal aggression may use these results to enhance their screening protocols and form cross-disciplinary partnerships to address the harms associated with TFA.

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confidence: 99%

U.S. Young Adults’ Professional Help-Seeking in Response to Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Mumford

Rothman

Maitra

et al. 2022

J Interpers Violence

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“…Community Courts: Theory, Practice and Evaluation CCs, presently operating in approximately 80 localities worldwide, emphasize, in addition to offender rehabilitation, the restoration and strengthening of the community suffering from crime (Karafin 2008;Miller, Block, and DeVault 2020). Therefore, these courts focus on offences that affect the well-being and security of residents.…”

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Evaluating the Israeli Community Courts: Key Issues, Challenges and Lessons

Gal,

Dancig-Rosenberg

2024

Int. ann. criminol.

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The last decade has seen the establishment of eight community courts (CCs) in Israel, representing a significant shift from the mainstream criminal justice approach. Inspired by the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, the Israeli CCs reflect an understanding of the links between local communities, crime and rehabilitation. The authors have evaluated the CCs since their inauguration, first in a formative study and then in an evaluation study. The present article focuses on three research modules that were utilized in these studies: the process characterization, which was based on structured observations of court hearings during the formative study; the subjective experiences of court participants, which were collected via in-depth interviews with programme participants; and the recidivism module, which compared the repeat offending patterns of programme participants with those of mainstream court defendants. Rather than detailing the findings of these modules, the paper uses them as examples, offering an open discussion about the process of conducting such studies: the selection of research questions that go beyond the traditional question of repeat offending and their possible theoretical contribution; the methodological, logistical and ethical choices that are made and their underlying considerations; and the obstacles that researchers face en route.

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“…Approximately sixty CCs operate in the United States, and a few dozen in other countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, and New Zealand. As the following examples demonstrate, cultural, social, legal, and political differences between the CCs have led to variations in their focus of attention (Miller, Block, and DeVault 2020). The Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC), established in 2000 in a vacant schoolhouse in Brooklyn, was designed architecturally to offer a comfortable and non-threatening environment (Berman and Adler 2018; Connor 2021).…”

Section: Community Courtsmentioning

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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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Problem-Solving Courts in the United States and Around the World: History, Evaluation, and Recommendations

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

U.S. Young Adults’ Professional Help-Seeking in Response to Technology-Facilitated Abuse

U.S. Young Adults’ Professional Help-Seeking in Response to Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Evaluating the Israeli Community Courts: Key Issues, Challenges and Lessons

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

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