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that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change. While the center’s programs cover a broad range of topics and differ in size, the approach is always the same: thoughtful, collaborative planning, an emphasis on creativity, and the rigorous use of data to document results. The center’s projects have achieved tangible results like safer streets, reduced levels of incarceration and fear, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.
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254:. Center planners have also worked with officials in San Francisco, who created a new community justice center to serve the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. Among other things, the center helped court planners in San Francisco complete an extensive community planning effort, including a needs assessment.
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Justice Served
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Midtown Community Court and the Red Hook Community Justice Center. "Sociologists and those within the legal system will no doubt be intrigued by this accessible and provocative call for change,"
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assistance to justice reformers around the world. The center’s projects include community-based violence prevention projects, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based programs such as the
685:. New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye has written and lectured frequently about problem-solving justice. See, for example, Judith S. Kaye "Delivering Justice Today: A Problem-Solving Approach" in
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justice reform. Center planners collaborate with practitioners beyond New York, such as government leaders in Great
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