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Other resources

• Lasting chance or passing fad? Problem-solving justice in England and Wales
  Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, Policy Exchange. 2009
• Court intervention programs : final report
  Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. 2009
• Community courts across the globe : a survey of goals, performance measures and operations
  Diana Karafin, Newlands, South Africa : Open Society Foundation for South Africa. 2008
• Court intervention programs : consultation paper
  Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Perth : Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. 2008
• NSW Attorney General's Department : evaluation of circle sentencing program report
  Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia, Sydney : Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia. 2008
• The Staten Island Treatment Court evaluation : planning, implementation, and impacts
  Kelly O'Keefe and Michael Rempel, New York, NY : Center for Court Innovation. 2006
• International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
• Problem-Solving Courts Resource Centre (US)
• Judging for the 21st century : a problem solving approach (PDF 401kB)
  National Judicial Institute (Canada), 2005
• Review of the effectiveness of specialist courts in other jurisdictions
  Lexicon Limited, Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson. Department for Constitutional Affairs (UK), 2005
• Delivering justice for all : a vision for New Zealand courts and tribunals
  New Zealand Law Commission, 2004
• Innovations in the court system 
  Arie Freiberg. Crime in Australian : international connections conference, 2004
• Problem-solving courts : models and trends (PDF 534kB)
  Pamela M Casey and David B Rottman , 2003
• Scoping paper: Transforming the criminal courts : politics, managerialism, consumerism, therapeutic jurisprudence and change
  Samantha Jeffries. Criminology Research Council report, 2002
• Specialised courts and sentencing
  Arie Freiberg. Probation and community corrections conference, 2002
• Problem-solving courts : a brief primer (PDF 100kB)
  Greg Berman and John Feinblatt. Center for Court Innovation (US), 2001
• Problem-solving courts
  Center for Court Innovation (US)
• Strategies for court collaboration with service communities
  Bureau of Justice Assistance (US)

Contents

• Drug courts
• Family violence
• Indigenous courts
• Mental health courts

Recent publications

• Australian crime: Facts & figures: 2011
  03 March 2012
• Policing licensed premises in the Australian Capital Territory
  14 October 2011
• Assessing the social climate of Australian prisons
  02 September 2011
• Older prisoners—A challenge for Australian corrections
  23 August 2011
• Police interviews with vulnerable adult suspects
  13 July 2011
• Technical and background paper: Measuring juvenile recidivism in Australia
  24 May 2011
• Prison-based correctional rehabilitation: An overview of intensive interventions for moderate to high-risk offenders
  20 May 2011
• Prison-based correctional offender rehabilitation programs: The 2009 national picture in Australia
  20 May 2011
• Trends in juvenile detention in Australia
  12 May 2011
• Cost-benefit analysis and its application to crime prevention and criminal justice research
  18 March 2011
• What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders?
  23 February 2011
• Good practice in women’s prisons: A literature review
  14 February 2011
• Measuring the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
  04 February 2011
• Non-disclosure of violence in Australian Indigenous communities
  19 January 2011
• Community Policing in Australia
  07 January 2011

Recent events

• Benefit-cost analysis in the real world: How the Washington State Legislature is using evidence-based information to lower crime rates and cut crime costs
  25 November 2011
• Meeting the needs of victims of crime
  18 May 2011
• Young people, risk and resilience: The challenges of alcohol, drugs and violence conference
  07 March 2011
• Juvenile justice – a wicked problem. Reflections on a strategic review of the NSW Juvenile Justice System
  19 August 2010
• Evaluating the Children’s Koori Court of Victoria
  15 March 2010