Toward the Ideal of Community Justice

摘要

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in approaches to criminal justice that center on community. Most familiar is community policing, now almost universally accepted as the new orthodoxy in the field, but the community paradigm has been adopted in virtually every component of the criminal justice system, from prosecution through corrections. Neighborhood-based prosecution centers in jurisdictions such as Portland, Oregon, and New York City; community courts in Manhattan and elsewhere; reparative probation statewide in Vermont; and community justice councils in Travis County, Texas, are among the manifestations. The trend, however, is not confined to the United States. Indeed, some initiatives underway in this country were originated abroad.