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2 results foundAuthor: Wolf, Robert V. Title: California's Collaborative Justice Courts: Building a Problem-Solving Judiciary Summary: Judiciaries around the country are embracing a new way of business, one that emphasizes partnerships with stakeholders in and outside the courts, improved community access to the justice system, greater accountability for offenders and better community outcomes, such as increased safety and improved public confidence. This new way of doing business goes by various names. In many jurisdictions, it’s called “problem solving.” In California it goes by the name “collaborative justice.” Problem-solving courts (or collaborative justice courts) include specialized drug courts, domestic violence courts, community courts, family treatment courts, DUI courts, mental health courts, peer/youth courts and homeless courts. Their aim is to address challenging problems — like drug addiction, domestic violence and juvenile delinquency — that society brings to courthouses across the country every day. While each of these courts targets a different problem, they all seek to use the authority of courts to improve outcomes for victims, communities and defendants. These court programs strive to achieve tangible results like safer streets and stronger families; at the same time, they seek to maintain the fairness and legitimacy of the court process. In California, collaborative justice is increasingly being viewed as a set of principles and practices that can be used in many types of cases both in and outside specialized, intensive court calendars. Collaborative justice also seeks to incorporate other innovative justice approaches, such as balanced and restorative justice, procedural fairness efforts, therapeutic jurisprudence and alternative dispute resolution. This report attempts to capture the history of the California judiciary’s involvement in collaborative justice courts, from their beginnings as isolated experiments to current efforts at statewide coordination. In recounting this story, the goal is to offer lessons to other states that are grappling with similar challenges. Details: Sacramento: Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts, 2005. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed July 27, 2011 at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/California_Story.pdf Year: 2005 Country: United States URL: http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/California_Story.pdf Shelf Number: 122170 Keywords: Courts (California)Problem-Solving Courts |
Author: Porter, Rachel Title: Procedural Fairness in California: Initiatives, Challenges, and Recommendations Summary: Procedural fairness concerns the extent to which the courts are understandable, accessible, respectful, and trustworthy in the eyes of the people who use them. In 2005, the Judicial Council of California commissioned a landmark public trust and confidence assessment, Trust and Confidence in the California Courts, which identified perceptions of procedural fairness as the strongest predictor of whether members of the public approve of or have confidence in California’s courts (Rottman, 2005). In 2007, in response to these findings and those in a follow-up study involving in depth focus groups and interviews with court users, administrators, bench officers, and attorneys (Wooden and Doble, 2006), Chief Justice Ronald M. George launched a statewide initiative on procedural fairness, the first initiative of its kind in the nation. It is aimed at ensuring fair process, quality treatment of all court users, and higher public trust and confidence in California’s courts. In 2008, the California Administrative Office of the Court’s Executive Office Programs Division commissioned the Center for Court Innovation to conduct a thorough needs assessment and analysis of best practices in promoting procedural fairness among the state’s civil and traffic cases. This report describes findings from over 20 site visits and nearly 50 stakeholder interviews along with a document and website review. Details: New York: Center for Court Innovation; Sacramento: Judicial Council of California, 2011. 61p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 2, 2012 at: http://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/Procedural_Fairness_CA.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/Procedural_Fairness_CA.pdf Shelf Number: 124788 Keywords: Courts (California)Procedure Fairness |