Section 1: What is Community Justice? Page 2
Section 2: Sharing the Burdens and Benefits: Community Ownership of Crime Problems and Solutions Page 4
Section 3:Engaging the Leaders of Tomorrow in Problems Solving Today: The Role of Our Youth in Community Justice Page 8
Section 4: Building Community Support for Law Enforcement Page 11
Section 5: Power Sharing Between Law Enforcement, the Courts, and the Community Page 14
Section 6: Community Justice in Rural America Page 17
Section 7: Community Policing in the 21st Century Page 20
Section 8: Restorative Justice from the Victim’s Perspective Page 23
Section 9: Offenders Repaying the Community: Meaningful Community Service Programs Page 26
Section 10: Community Policing in Rural America Page 29
Section 11: Who is being served? Victims, Offenders, and the Community – The Consumers of Justice Page 32
Section 12: Children of Incarcerated Parents: Working together to break the Cycle of Destruction Page 35
Section 13: Benefits of Effective Community Street Outreach Page 38
Section 14: Strengthening and Sustaining Community Partnerships: 10 Key Indicators for Success Page 40
Section 15: Creating an Electronic Community: Integrated Justice Information Systems Page 43
Section 16: Best Practices in Community Crime Prevention: An International Perspective Page 47
Section 17: How to Start a Community Court Page 53
Section 18: Addressing Tribal and Non-tribal issues in Law Enforcement Page 56
Section 19: Community Responses to Alcohol-Related Crime Page58
Section 20: Hate Crimes: How is the Criminal Justice System Responding? Page 62
Section 21: Minorities in the Criminal Justice System: Addressing Overrepresentation Page 67
Section 22: Responding to the Needs of Mentally Ill Offenders Page 72
Section 23: Youths Adjudicated as Adults Page 75
Section 24: The Third Leg of the Three-Legged Stool: Indigent Defense Supporting the Justice System Page 77
Section 25: The Impact of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Page 80
Section 26: Making Justice Work for the Elderly and the Developmentally Disabled Page 83
Section 27: Overcoming Cultural Barriers in the Criminal Justice System Page87
Section 28: Balance and Equality in Community-Based Offender Management Page 90
Section 29: What about Girls? Page 94
Section 30: Partnership between Substance Abuse Treatment and Criminal Justice: Maximizing Resources with Shared Populations Page 97
Section 31: Combating the Methamphetamine Epidemic: Shifting Tactics in Rural Law Enforcement Page 101
Section 32: Retooling Prevention for Changing Times Page 103
Section 33: Creating a Blueprint for Community Safety: Planning and Action Page 107
Section 34: Expanding the Concept of Sanctions to Increase Offender Accountability and Public Safety for the Long Term Page 110
Section 35: Tools to Measure Program Effectiveness Page 114
Section 36: High-Tech Crime and High-Tech Justice: Responses to Computer Crime and Terrorism Page 117
Section 37: Domestic Terrorism Preparedness Page 119
Section 38: Back from the Edge: Changing the Future of Street Kids and Gang Members Page 123
Section 39: The Evolution of Drug Epidemics Page 127
Section 40: Handle with Care: The Hazards of Investigating Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories Page 130
Section 41: How Young is too Young?: Children in the Criminal Justice System Page 134
Section 42: Life Savers: Technology to Protect and Serve Page 137
Section 43: Youth Leadership Forum: A Report Page 140
Section 44: Supporting Crime Reduction and Drug Elimination at the Local Level: HUD’s Role Page 142
Section 45: Multi-Jurisdictional Task Forces (MJTFs) and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) Page 145
Section 46: Who are the Victims? Who are the Offenders?: Applying current Crime Data to Federal, State and Local Policy Page 148
Section 47: Knowing the Unknown Offender: Building a History, Psychology and Image of a Suspect by the Facts of a Case Page 154
Section 48: Making Connections: Managing Offender Reentry to the Community Page 157