Community justice court associated with lower rearrest rates
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 11:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Community justice courts, which bring judges and social services into neighborhoods with high crime rates, are a novel approach to address low-level criminal offenders. A study of such a court in a in a high-crime area of San Francisco found the approach was associated with a lower chance that offenders would be arrested for another crime within a year.