Community Solutions to Justice: Solutions for Faster, Fairer, and More Effective Justice in American Communities
In communities across the country, America’s courts are struggling to deliver on their promise of speedy, fair, and effective justice. In this groundbreaking report, we explore community solutions to justice and whether they can help community leaders provide faster, fairer, and more effective justice for their communities.
Discover community solutions to justice.
REPORT
Across the country, America’s courts are struggling to deliver on the principle of speedy, fair, and effective justice. Victims and the accused regularly wait hundreds of days to have their cases heard in court. Less than half of those involved in the courts describe the process as fair. Nearly half, 44% of all those convicted of a crime will reoffend within one year, giving the United States the highest recividism rate in the world.
While many reforms have been proposed and advanced to address these issues, in this groundbreaking report, we present one approach that has, as of yet, been little examined. Community solutions to justice.
Discover Community Solutions to Justice.
Across the United States, nearly 200 community programs resolve over 500,000 cases outside of the court system every year. These community solutions offer promise to address some of the most daunting challenges of the criminal and civil justice systems:
- Case processing times from 30-90 days, up to 5x faster than traditional court
- Higher perceptions of fairness than traditional court
- Recidivism rates from 3.5-15%, 3x better than traditional court
- Increased compliance with decisions
- High rates of satisfaction from both victims and offenders
Bring Faster, Fairer, and Better Justice to Your Community
Community Solutions to Justice is the most comprehensive report ever released on community solutions to faster, fairer, and more effective justice. Through this groundbreaking research, you’ll discover:
- 5 community solutions to justice, including arbitration, community mediation, teen court and more.
- The benefits, drawbacks, and types of cases each of these solutions works to address
- How each of these solutions work, and advice from nonprofit leaders about how to bring them to your community.
- 6 case studies of these solutions in action in communities across the United States.
- Appendixes full of resources, including resources to bring these solutions to your community, a table of active community justice programs by state, and hundreds of sources to learn more about community solutions to justice.
Community Solutions to Justice: Solutions for Faster, Fairer, and More Effective Justice in American Communities
In communities across the country, America’s courts are struggling to deliver on their promise of speedy, fair, and effective justice. In this groundbreaking report, we explore community solutions to justice and whether they can help community leaders provide faster, fairer, and more effective justice for their communities.
Discover community solutions to justice.
Across the country, America’s courts are struggling to deliver on the principle of speedy, fair, and effective justice. Victims and the accused regularly wait hundreds of days to have their cases heard in court. Less than half of those involved in the courts describe the process as fair. Nearly half, 44% of all those convicted of a crime will reoffend within one year, giving the United States the highest recividism rate in the world.
While many reforms have been proposed and advanced to address these issues, in this groundbreaking report, we present one approach that has, as of yet, been little examined. Community solutions to justice.
Discover Community Solutions to Justice.
Across the United States, nearly 200 community programs resolve over 500,000 cases outside of the court system every year. These community solutions offer promise to address some of the most daunting challenges of the criminal and civil justice systems:
- Case processing times from 30-90 days, up to 5x faster than traditional court
- Higher perceptions of fairness than traditional court
- Recidivism rates from 3.5-15%, 3x better than traditional court
- Increased compliance with decisions
- High rates of satisfaction from both victims and offenders
Bring Faster, Fairer, and Better Justice to Your Community
Community Solutions to Justice is the most comprehensive report ever released on community solutions to faster, fairer, and more effective justice. Through this groundbreaking research, you’ll discover:
- 5 community solutions to justice, including arbitration, community mediation, teen court and more.
- The benefits, drawbacks, and types of cases each of these solutions works to address
- How each of these solutions work, and advice from nonprofit leaders about how to bring them to your community.
- 6 case studies of these solutions in action in communities across the United States.
- Appendixes full of resources, including resources to bring these solutions to your community, a table of active community justice programs by state, and hundreds of sources to learn more about community solutions to justice.