Episodes

After visiting the Harlem Community Justice Center, Katherine McQuay and Zoe Mentel of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) talk about reentry, community policing, and the stimulus package. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. I’m here today at the Harlem Community Justice Center with Katherine McQuay who is a supervisory policy analyst with ...

Roxann Pais, an executive assistant city attorney in the Dallas City Attorney’s Office, describes how prosecutors across the U.S. are responding to the crisis in foreclosed and vacant properties. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. I’m here with Roxann Pais, who is the executive assistant city attorney with the Dallas City Attorney’s Office and the special assistant U.S. attorney for th...

Ann Fulmer, a lawyer and community activist, explains how mortgage fraud harms neighborhoods—including her own community outside Atlanta, Georgia—and what residents can do to stop it. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Welcome to another New Thinking podcast. Today I’m with Ann Fulmer who is a vice president at Interthinx, and she’s also the co-founder of the Georgia Real Estate Fraud Prevention and Awareness Coalition. And w...

Linda Baird discusses the Youth Justice Board, which brings together high schoolers across New York City to study and make recommendations about justice policies that affect their peers.

Mary Claire Landry, director of Domestic Violence Services for the Catholic Charities in New Orleans, discusses the challenge of rebuilding effective responses to domestic violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf with another New Thinking podcast from the Center for Court Innovation. Today I’m with Mary Claire Landry, who is the director of Domestic Violence Services for the New Orleans arm of Catholic Charities and also serves as the Secretary of the Loui...

Judge Wendy Lindley offers a preview of the Orange County Community Court, which is scheduled to open in coming months. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, this is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation, and I’d like to welcome you to New Thinking, a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation. With us today is Orange County Superior Court Judge, Wendy Lindley. I’m sorry for the background noise, but we’re in a hotel lobby. Welcome to New York. JUDGE WENDY LINDLEY...

University of Maryland Law Professor Terry Hickey discusses Baltimore’s new Prostitution Court and other community justice initiatives. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. I’m here today with Terry Hickey, who is adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and is deeply involved in an interesting project that they have been collaborating on, called the Community Justice Initiative. Terry, welcome to Brooklyn and ...

Member of Parliament Nick Herbert talks about his work as Britain’s shadow justice minister, the Conservative Party’s prospects in the next election, and the importance of problem solving. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf and I’m welcoming listeners to another podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation. With me today is Nick Herbert, who is a member of Parliament, conservative member of Parliament, and currently the shadow justice secretary. Let me first welcome you to New York and...

Staff of the Harlem Parole Reentry Court discuss how they help ex-offenders make the transition from incarceration to the community. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation, and welcome to another episode of New Thinking, a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation to highlight practitioners, researchers, and others who are experimenting with new approaches to justice. Today I’m in the Harlem Community Justice Center wit...

Judge Miriam Cyrulnik explains how the court–the first of its kind in the country–addresses the unique needs of adolescent domestic violence victims and perpetrators. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi, this is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation, and welcome to another episode of New Thinking, a podcast produced by the Center for Court Innovation to highlight practitioners, researchers, and others, who are experimenting with new approaches to justice. Today I’m in the c...

Judge Matthew D’Emic and others explain how the Brooklyn Mental Health Court links mentally-ill offenders to treatment and rigorously monitors compliance. ROBERT V. WOLF: This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center for Court Innovation. Today we’re going to take a look at the Brooklyn Mental Health Court, the first court of its kind in New York State to link mentally ill offenders to treatment as an alternative to jail. Judge Matthew D’emic has presided over the Brooklyn Ment...

Jack Straw, the United Kingdom’s justice secretary and lord chancellor, experiences a judge’s-eye view of the courtroom, quizzes staff about operations, and meets with a group of ex-offenders who have gotten their lives back on track during a visit to the Red Hook Community Justice Center in February 2008. ROBERT V. WOLF: The courtroom of the Redhook Community Justice Center is, in many ways, like countless courtrooms. There’s a gallery for witnesses and litigants waiting to appear before t...