New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation

New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation


Latest Episodes

Privileged Work: A Conversation about Victim Advocacy
June 01, 2011

Robyn Wiktorski-Reynolds, the advocate program coordinator for Crisis Services inBuffalo, New York,has worked in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault for 12 years. Here shedisc

With 11 Questions, Officers Assess Homicide Risk
May 18, 2011

David M. Sargent of the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence has taught thousands of law enforcement officers how to implement the Lethality Assessment Program, which uses a shor

An Outsider’s Perspective on an Inside Job
May 09, 2011

New York City Commissioner of Probation Vincent N. Schiraldi, who previously ran the juvenile justice system in Washington D.C., describes his journey from gadfly to government insider and the

Solving and Preventing Homicides through Collaboration
April 27, 2011

Mallory O'Brien, a researcher at the Public Policy Institute at Duke University, describes how the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission brings together law enforcement and public health to sol

What Can Law Enforcement Learn from Public Health?
March 11, 2011

Anthony Iton of the California Endowment talks about the public health approach to crime and safety problems.ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, I'm Rob Wolf, the director of communications at the Center for

What Victims Really Need: A Conversation with Author and Victim Advocate Susan Herman
January 12, 2011

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

Problem-Solving Justice in Indian Country: The Navajo Nation Plans a Pilot Community Court
December 22, 2010

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 justi

Dallas Community Courts Make Cleaner, Safer Streets a Top Priority
November 01, 2010

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 s

David Kennedy: Innovating New Approaches to Justice (Part II)
July 30, 2010

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

David Kennedy: The Story behind the Drug Market Initiative (Part I)
June 30, 2010

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