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This Best Practices submission provides an overview of the work of the Justice Circle in Moorhead, Minnesota. The Justice Circle is a group of community citizens, both white and of color, who are engaged in community organizing, education, and advocacy for the purpose of enhancing equal opportunity and promoting racial and ethnic justice in their community. One of the co-conveners of the Justice Circle was asked this past summer to sit on the Reader's Board of the local newspaper (The Forum) and will also be writing a regular column related to multicultural topics for the paper. Justice Circle participants will also be attending meetings of the Moorhead Human Rights Commission and City Council to monitor and provide support to the Commission's and Council's conversations regarding implementation of citizen action teams recommendations. CJJBplan Dennis A. Gilbert Nancy H. Williams Gary Green, Ph.D. Michael Yost Michael L. Holmes Please contact the Criminal Justice Planner, Amanda E. Hayes, with any comments or questions at (757) 229-2857 or amandah@james-city.va.us. Based on their strategic planning efforts, CCCJB members adopted the following strategies and objectives for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Update contents of CJ Planner, James City Ongoing CCCJB utes; minUpdates in CCCJB website County's Web Manager CCCJB website progress/ every six months. Continue to share CCCJB members Ongoing CCCJB minutes; Ongoing member agencies Committee meetings information on minutes projects/programs with other CCCJB agencies at all CCCJB meetings and Committee meetings. ab_just_system_and_you This brochure will give you the facts about your justice system -- the major participants and the important roles that each plays. Provincial Minister of Justice and Attorney General is the senior law officer of the Crown in Alberta. Provincial Solicitor General is responsible for provincial policing issues and the provincial Police Act. The minister is responsible for all federal laws including the Criminal Code, the Divorce Act and the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and for the administration of the Supreme Court of Canada. Federal Solicitor General contracts with Alberta Solicitor General to provide an RCMP provincial police service, First Nations police services, and some municipal police services. Crime_Atlas_2001-update Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, 1960--1999. Over the last five years drug arrest rates have stabilized at their highest level during the past quarter century. While prison populations increased dramatically over the past 20 years, the characteristics of offenders incarcerated have also changed. Examples of legislation passed by the states include enhancing punishments for possessing a firearm on school grounds, requiring law enforcement agencies to notify school districts of certain offenses committed by juveniles, and permitting schools to disclose education records to law enforcement agencies. Examples of legislation passed by the states include requiring photographs, fingerprints, and DNA samples from juveniles who commit certain offenses, and placing limits on access to juvenile records. IthacaJustice http://www.bordc.org/IthacaJustice.pdf This letter is in reply to the correspondence you sent on behalf of the City of Ithaca to Attorney General John Ashcroft on February 20, 2003, enclosing a copy of the Resolution unanimously passed in support of defending civil rights and civil liberties in Ithaca. I am heartened to learn that the citizens of Ithaca are engaging in open dialogue regarding the ramifications of the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act on civil rights in the Ithaca area in this post-9/11 atmosphere. In response to the text of the Resolution, I must say that the Justice Department maintains that, as written, the USA PATRIOT Act strikes the proper balance between upholding civil rights and civil liberties and safeguarding Americans from future terrorist threats. BSTJCrpt It reports on changes in legal services delivery that each state has made since the Legal Services Corporation issued its call for state planning six years ago, with its first Program Letter on the subject. All improved access to justice for low-income people, strengthened the quality of the legal services delivered by programs and forged new and deeper bonds among stakeholder partners in each state's civil justice community. In a few states, a fully developed state justice community is in place and its accomplishments are paying off in terms of expanded and improved services to clients. Some states have developed key justice community institutions whose significant improvements in the structure of civil legal assistance in their state position them to make real changes for clients. kdpaper5 For example, in New Zealand where a strong version of restorative justice is in place legislatively, the naming of family group conferencing as restorative justice came several years after the passage of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989. So too in South Australia, where youth justice coordinators began to associate their practices with restorative justice several years after the passage of the Young Offenders Act 1993. Compared to young people and their families, victim participation was substantially less (half of victims attended conferences), and victims' levels of satisfaction with the process were not as high. (They note that traditional Maori 'methods of justice were not always benign' in that they included death, slavery, and exile.) aboriginal_nomination The Law and Justice Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2003 Aboriginal Justice Award, to be presented at the annual Justice Awards on 13 October 2003. The Justice Awards recognise the contributions that individuals have made to improving access to justice in NSW, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged people. It is presented to an Aboriginal individual, or a group of Aboriginal individuals, who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to improving access to justice for Aboriginal people in NSW. Can the two referees named in the nomination demonstrate the broad aspects of the nominee's outstanding commitment to improving access to justice for Aboriginal people by providing another perspective or 'filling out the picture' of the nominee's standing in their particular community? offenders_with_dd Suspects with mental retardation (MR) and developmental disabilities (DD) are a small but increasing portion of offenders in the criminal justice system. Estimates suggest that while persons with MR/DD are 2% to 3% of the general population, they are 4% to 10% of the prison population---and even a higher percentage of those in juvenile facilities and in jails. Individuals with mental retardation must have access to education that, among other goals, enhances their ability to protect themselves from criminal victimization and avoid possible criminal activities. The tough-on-crime mood of the nation is precluding them from responding to calls for improved services for a select few, however deserving. neigh_just http://www.courtinnovation.org/pdf/neigh_just.pdf "Neighborhood Justice at the Midtown Community Court." The National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Assistance are components of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. The evaluation found that changes in sentencing at the Midtown Community Court had a substantial effect on defendant behavior. By keeping defendants, police officers, and paperwork in the neighborhood where the crime occurred, the Court cut arrest-to-arraignment times substantially, from an average of 31 to 18 hours. At the Midtown Community Court, it is clear that the judge's job is not to manage community relations; instead the Court has a community ombudsperson and an administrative staff charged with this responsibility. no_witness_no_justice_long_version A number of impediments have been commonly identified that restrict the support available to witnesses which can result in their being reluctant to come forward and give evidence. Where witnesses decide not to give evidence in court, the prosecution appears to be too ready to accept this rather than try to persuade them to change their minds. 5. The current model being worked up by officials from the criminal justice and voluntary sector, is to give the Home Secretary power, in legislation, to issue a Code binding on the CJS agencies, which will list the services victims of crime should receive. 6. A separate, independent Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses (who will embrace lay witnesses) will also be established to champion victims' and witnesses' interests, and ensure that their voices are better heard not just in the criminal justice system but across Government. crim2k For more information on Covering Criminal Justice or to order additional copies, please contact Andrew J. Martin at The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture via e-mail at amartin@sorosny.org. Please note that like other major players in the criminal justice field, some of the organizations and individuals listed here are funded by or connected to The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture or other Open Society Institute programs. He closely tracks school safety issues and tends to believe that school crime is under-reported. His expertise is in comparative crime rates,the impact of sentencing laws on crime, juvenile justice reform,the impact of curfew laws on crime, "three strikes" laws and sentencing policies, alternatives to incarceration, the prison industrial complex,and the politics of prison expansion. crim justice http://www.umd.umich.edu/prospective/pdf/casl/crim justice.pdf Criminal justice is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the study of criminal behavior and society's response to it. The field draws upon the insights of the social and behavioral sciences, the physical sciences, statistics, and the humanities to illuminate the issues of maintaining social order in a constitutional democracy committed to individual freedom, equality, and justice. Criminal justice analyzes system responses to changes in social structure and cultural values, and the reciprocal relationship between societal values and law enforcement. A criminal justice minor consists of 15 hours of upper-divison criminal justice course work, including CRJ 468 and two courses from CRJ 363, 470, or 469. An internship or co-op experience of three hours is required. everything6 The executive summary briefly discusses each chapter and includes all of the recommendations for reform. Similarly, secure detention facilities, whether primarily juvenile or adult oriented, must provide developmentally appropriate services. 2. Develop stronger ties to public school programs within the community to ensure a smooth transition for youth returning to their community. 3. Provide a comprehensive educational and developmental screening, assessing possibility of learning disabilities, emotional behavioral disorders, or cognitive limitations that have an adverse effect upon learning to every youth entering the juvenile justice system. Forensic evaluations are those done expressly for the purpose of aiding the court in rendering legal decisions rather than helping the patient, as is the case in most psychiatric evaluations.
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