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thumb The Center for Court Innovation is an American non-profit organization headquartered in New York which helps the justice system aid victims, reduce crime and improve public trust in justice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Decade of Change: The First 10 Years of the Center for Court Innovation )〕 The Center for Court Innovation works closely with the New York State Unified Court System, functioning as the judiciary's independent research and development arm. In that role, the Center creates demonstration projects that test new ideas.〔See http://www.courtinnovation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=472 for a complete list of the Center's demonstration projects.〕 The Center’s projects include the Midtown Community Court and Red Hook Community Justice Center as well as drug courts, reentry courts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Harlem Parole Reentry Court Evaluation: Implementation and Preliminary Impact )〕 domestic violence courts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Planning a Domestic Violence Court: The New York State Experience )〕 mental health courts〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Building Trust and Managing Risk: A Look at a Felony Mental Health Court )〕 and others. The Center also works closely with jurisdictions around the U.S. and the rest of the world, disseminating lessons learned from innovative programs and providing hands-on assistance to criminal justice practitioners interested in deploying new research-based strategies to improve the delivery of justice. The Center, which received an Innovations in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Government Innovators Network: Center for Court Innovation, 2005-05-18 10:03:02 )〕 was founded in 1996. The Center's first director was John Feinblatt, who currently serves as a senior advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Since 2002, the Center has been led by Greg Berman. == History == The Center for Court Innovation grew out of a single experiment in judicial problem solving. The Midtown Community Court was created in 1993 to address low-level offending around Times Square.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neighborhood Justice at the Midtown Community Court )〕 The Midtown Court combines punishment and help, sentencing offenders to perform community service and receive social services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dispensing Justice Locally: The Implementation and Effects of the Midtown Community Court )〕 The project’s perceived success in making justice more visible and more meaningful led the court’s planners, with the support of New York State’s chief judge, to establish the Center for Court Innovation to serve as an engine for ongoing court reform in New York. The Center works within the court system, but is administered as a project of the Fund for the City of New York,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FCNY )〕 a non-profit operating foundation. The Center works closely with court system staff but, as an independent organization, retains the perspective of independent observers. According to former New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, "In creating the Center, we essentially adapted a model from the private sector: we chose to make an ongoing investment in research and development, and we chose to shield these functions from the daily pressures of managing the courts. The results have been unmistakable: the Center for Court Innovation has helped keep New York at the forefront of court reform for more than a decade."〔 Center planners also work with practitioners beyond New York. For example, they've worked with government leaders in Great Britain to replicate the Red Hook Community Justice Center in North Liverpool. Center planners have also worked with officials in San Francisco, who created a new community justice center to serve the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. Among other things, the Center helped court planners in San Francisco complete an extensive community planning effort, including a needs assessment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City & County of San Francisco )〕 The Center has received numerous awards for its efforts, including the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University and the Ford Foundation, the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Claremont Graduate University News and Events Index )〕 from Claremont Graduate University and the Prize for Public Sector Innovation from the Citizens Budget Commission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Court Innovation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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