Goals into Action: An Evaluation Report on the Third Bush Justice Conference

This evaluation reports on the Third Bush Justice Conference, held in Kenai, Alaska on November 8–12, 1976. Prior bush justice conferences were held at Alyeska (1970) and Minto (1974). The report outlines themes addressed in all the bush justice conferences, focuses on ways in which bush justice conferences can improve the administration of justice in rural Alaska, and recommends ways in which state justice agencies and Alaska Native representatives can work together proactively to respond to specific problems identified at conferences.Bush Justice Project, Alaska Federation of Native

Social Justice Begins at Home: The Challenges and Successes of a Social Justice Living-Learning Community

This article describes the development of the Dorothy Day Social Justice Community, a sophomore, social justice-focused living–learning community at Marquette University. The authors describe the administration of the community, discuss various elements of the community, and share assessment results. They also detail lessons learned from three years of administering the community, namely that support should be built throughout the university, barriers removed to student participation, a voice given to students in the administration of the community, and assessment done to guide practic

Climate Justice in a State of Emergency: What New York City Can Do

NYC Climate Justice Agenda – Climate Justice in a State of Emergency: What New York City Can Do is a roadmap with policy recommendations for how a progressive city can lead the way on environmental and climate issues while challenging the reactionary policies of the Trump administration

Law and norm: justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria

A recurring motif in law and legal studies literature is the relations between justice and legal administration on the one hand, and the social and human sciences on the other. Judicial and non-judicial systems of knowledge and practice are viewed as separate and distinct, as in some recent critique of the ‘New Penology’ that posit fundamental tensions between justice and welfare models of penality. Alternately, theorists have ‘de-centred’ law by focusing on the way in which problems form at the intersection of both legal and extra-legal institutions. This paper reviews the literature on the close interconnectedness of ‘welfare’ and ‘justice’ models of penal policy and ways of conceiving these relations in terms of a ‘complex’ involving justice administration and the conduct of the human sciences. It then attempts to demonstrate these relations, historically, in the ‘cross-talk’ of agencies involved in establishing the children’s court and the court clinic in Victoria. Finally, the paper argues that the specific effects of law in this particular jurisdiction were to mandate the social scientific instruments needed to construct and promote the notion of a ‘normal family’. This account may have implications for contemporary juvenile justice policy and images of family in the present

Streamlining the New Zealand civil justice system : is it time for further reform? : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management (Dispute Resolution) at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

This paper examines the state of the New Zealand civil justice system and questions whether it is time for further reform. It has been just over a century since the legal profession was urged by Dean Roscoe Pound to address the problems of delay and poor administration. Since that time things have become progressively worse. The demand on court resources has been ever increasing and may even be greater today than what they were in 1906. Failure to address these mounting pressures on the judicial system could eventually render the affective administration of justice impossible. World-wide civil justice systems have experienced numerous problems - such as delay, excessive cost and complexity. Overseas jurisdictions have already examined their civil justice systems and implemented reform. Previously, New Zealand has implemented some of the reforms found overseas, for example, case management systems. However, like the overseas jurisdictions, these reforms have limited success. This limited success led to the Law Commission proposing a complete change of the lower Court system. This paper discusses the reforms which overseas jurisdictions have implemented, previous reforms? of the New Zealand civil justice system and the Law Commissions proposed restructure of the courts. Finally, this paper recommends ways in which New Zealand could reform its civil justice system to ensure that it offers a cost effective, simple and speedy way to resolve disputes

California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice Final Report

The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice was created by the California State Senate in 2004 to “study and review the administration of criminal justice in California, to determine the extent to which that process has failed in the past” and to examine safeguards and improvements. The Commission completed its work on June 30, 2008 in Sacramento by delivering a report on the fair administration of the death penalty in California to the Legislature and the Governor.https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/ncippubs/1000/thumbnail.jp

Community-Based Partnerships: Collaboration and Organizational Partnerships in Criminal Justice

This research examined a collaborative communitypractitioner partnership involving many justice and non-justice system agencies in Tarrant County, Texas. The study examined the challenges of a community-based partnership for solving jail overcrowding issues and the overincarceration of mentally ill individuals. This research involved working with the behavioral and mental health providers, substance abuse services providers, health services providers, police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, sheriff’s office, county administration, court administration, jail staff, reentry services providers and organizations, victim services organizations, and so many more. In this paper the focus is on the importance of reducing conflict between entities that see themselves as in competition (removing adversarial components where possible), increasing communication between agencies and organizations, creating accountability for action, and managing the political terrain. We find that these elements combine to produce successful outcomes for communities and families as we focus on the justice system-involved population, their families, and their communities