An Outcome Evaluation of the Indianapolis Community Court

Grommon, Eric; Hipple, Natalie Kroovand; Ray, Bradley

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“…An evaluation study of the East of the River CC program in Washington State found a 42 percent reduced risk of program graduates being reconvicted (Westat 2012). By contrast, some studies have found no significant effect (Sviridoff et al 2002;Jolliffe and Farrington 2009;Booth et al 2012;Grommon, Hipple, and Ray 2017). Focusing on costefficiency, the RHCJC evaluation study estimated that, based on reduced victimization costs owing to reductions in recidivism, the benefits of processing cases in the RHCJC's CC outweighed its total cost by nearly two to one (Lee et al 2013).…”

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

Dancig-Rosenberg,

Gal

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…In contrast, three studies found no significant reductions in reoffending, two focusing on the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre in England (Booth et al 2012; Jolliffe and Farrington 2009) and one on defendants referred to the Indianapolis Community Court (Grommon, Hipple, and Ray 2017).…”

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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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Courts as empathic spaces: reflections on the Melbourne neighbourhood justice centre

Halsey

Vel-Palumbo

2018

Griffith Law Review

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An Outcome Evaluation of the Indianapolis Community Court

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

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

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

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

Courts as empathic spaces: reflections on the Melbourne neighbourhood justice centre

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