Daring to Fail: First-Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform

摘要

The Center for Court Innovation and the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance have launched a multi-faceted initiative designed to promote innovation at the grassroots level by encouraging criminal justice agencies to engage in a process of trial and error - much the way a scientist would. A large part of this effort has been devoted to studying criminal justice reform efforts - both successes and failures - in an effort to identify lessons for the innovators of tomorrow. By fostering a more open and honest public discussion of failures in particular, the project seeks to encourage self-reflection, transparency and thoughtful risk-taking among criminal justice agencies. One of the hallmarks of the Trial and Error initiative has been first-person interviews with leading criminal justice scholars, practitioners and policymakers. Over the past three years, staff from the Center for Court Innovation have conducted nearly 100 such interviews with leaders in a variety of fields - prosecution, policing, community corrections, indigent defense and others. This book includes a representative sample of these interviews.