New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation

Susan Herman, who served for seven years as the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, talks about her book Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime. The following is a transcript ROB WOLF: Hi, I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. I’m here with Susan Herman who is an associate professor at Pace U...

Court Administrator Susie Martin and Chief Probation Officer Lucinda Yellowhair explain how the Navajo Nation’s pilot community court will draw on their culture’s traditional restorative justice principles. The following is a transcript. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. The Navajo Nation covers 27,000 square miles and has more than a...

Dianne Gibson, the manager of the community courts in Dallas, Texas, explains how the South Dallas Community Court uses a combination of partnership and problem-solving to link homeless with services while eliminating neighborhood eyesores. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. I’m recently back from Dallas where the Center for Court Innov...

Professor David Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention & Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, shares some of what he’s learned about new approaches to addressing gang violence and open-air drug dealing. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. This month’s podcast is the second in a row to offer excerpts from...

Professor David Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention & Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, explains how the Boston Gun Project laid the groundwork for the Drug Market Initiative pilot in High Point, N.C. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. For this month’s podcast I’m going to share with you some exce...

This podcast includes observations from the presiding judge, Alex Calabrese, and short interviews by Director of Communications Robert V. Wolf with the Brooklyn D.A.’s Chief Assistant District Attorney Anne Swern and Captain Kenneth Corey, commander of the 76th Precinct. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. When the Red Hook Community Jus...

Kristine Herman of the Center for Court Innovation spent three months in Afghanistan helping the attorney general establish the nation’s first unit dedicated to prosecuting cases of violence against women. She spoke with the Center’s Director of Communications Robert V. Wolf about her experience. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. I’m Rob Wolf, Director of Communications at the Center for Court Innovation. And t...

Lauren Abramson explains how the Community Conferencing Center, which she founded and leads, provides communities with the structure and support they need to address certain crimes and conflicts on their own.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., following his keynote address at a Harlem Parole Reentry Court graduation, answers questions about reentry, crime prevention, and community prosecution. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, I’m Rob Wolf, director of Communications at the Center for Court Innovation. This is New Thinking, a podcast about innovations in justice. At the beginning of 2010, Manhattan, which is where...

Gretta Bush and Bobby Davis of High Point Community Against Violence explain how the Drug Market Initiative–a program developed by David Kennedy of John Jay College of Criminal Justice–offers a sustainable and effective strategy for ending the violence associated with open-air drug markets. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, this is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. And I’m...

Joan Petersilia, a law professor at Stanford University explains what ex-prisoners need to successfully reintegrate into society, and how California’s correction system–once a national model–lost its way. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. I’m Rob Wolf, and welcome to “New Thinking,” a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation. Today I’m talking to Joan Petersilia, a law professor at Stanford Universit...

Derek Miodownik, restorative systems administrator for the Vermont Department of Corrections , talks about the state’s innovative experiments in community and restorative justice, including Citizen Reparative Boards, which give panels of community members a role in working with misdemeanor offenders, and Circles of Support and Accountability, which link community members with parolees convicted of...

Legendary entertainer Harry Belafonte congratulates graduates of the Harlem Parole Reentry Court for satisfying the program’s rigorous requirements. ROBERT V. WOLF: The 10th graduation of the Harlem Parole Reentry Court featured a special guest. HARRY BELAFONTE: I was born in Harlem. I grew up in Harlem. I’m in my 82nd year of life and I’m still alive. (APPLAUSE) WOLF: That was Harry Belafonte, si...

West Huddleston, CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, talks about his group’s new web site, why the nation’s 2,300-plus drug courts reach only 10 percent of the people they’re designed to help, and what’s next on the horizon for the drug court movement. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. My name is Rob Wolf and I’m director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Today I hav...

Ronald B. Adrine, the administrative and presiding judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court talks about differentiating between defendants who are habitual batterers and defendants who are one-time perpetrators (such as those acting in self defense). ROBERT V. WOLF: How, I’m Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Today I’m speaking with Ronald B. Adrine, who is the...

Herb Sturz–the subject of a new book, A Kind of Genius, by New York Times reporter Sam Roberts–talks about innovation, the power of private-public collaborations, the founding of the Midtown Community Court, and his current work at the Open Society Institute. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Today I’m at the Open Society Institute...

After visiting the Harlem Community Justice Center, Katherine McQuay and Zoe Mentel of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) talk about reentry, community policing, and the stimulus package. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. I’m here today at the...

Roxann Pais, an executive assistant city attorney in the Dallas City Attorney’s Office, describes how prosecutors across the U.S. are responding to the crisis in foreclosed and vacant properties. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. I’m here with Roxann Pais, who is the executive assistant city...

Ann Fulmer, a lawyer and community activist, explains how mortgage fraud harms neighborhoods—including her own community outside Atlanta, Georgia—and what residents can do to stop it. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. Today I’m with Ann Fulmer who is a vice president at Interthinx, and she’s...

Linda Baird discusses the Youth Justice Board, which brings together high schoolers across New York City to study and make recommendations about justice policies that affect their peers.

Mary Claire Landry, director of Domestic Violence Services for the Catholic Charities in New Orleans, discusses the challenge of rebuilding effective responses to domestic violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf with another New Thinking podcast from the Center for Court Innovation. Today I’m with Mary Claire Landry, who is the director of Domestic Violence Serv...

Judge Wendy Lindley offers a preview of the Orange County Community Court, which is scheduled to open in coming months. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, this is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation, and I’d like to welcome you to New Thinking, a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation. With us today is Orange County Superior Court Judge, Wendy Lindley. I’m sorry f...

University of Maryland Law Professor Terry Hickey discusses Baltimore’s new Prostitution Court and other community justice initiatives. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. I’m here today with Terry Hickey, who is adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and is deeply involved in an interesting project that they have...

Member of Parliament Nick Herbert talks about his work as Britain’s shadow justice minister, the Conservative Party’s prospects in the next election, and the importance of problem solving. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf and I’m welcoming listeners to another podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation. With me today is Nick Herbert, who is a member of Parliament, conservative member of P...

Staff of the Harlem Parole Reentry Court discuss how they help ex-offenders make the transition from incarceration to the community. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation, and welcome to another episode of New Thinking, a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation to highlight practitioners, researchers, and others who are expe...