- What are “high-impact areas” and how do they affect the criminal justice system?
- What are the two assumptions inherent in the concept of community justice?
- What is community justice?
- How are criminal justice and social justice different?
- Why is “place” so important in the concept of community justice?
- What does the term “community” mean?
- What are “life chances” and what things can affect them?
- What are “hot spots”?
- What is the premise of the broken windows theory?
- What is social disorganization theory?
- What is collective efficacy?
- What were some of the factors that caused the police to lose contact with community?
- What are the two aims of community oriented policing? Why are they important?
- How does the fact that most citizens only encounter police officers when their lives are not routine affect relations between the community and the police?
- How can strained relationships between citizens and the police affect the ability of the police to investigate crimes?
- Explain the difference between authority and power. How does each of these affect the relationship between the police and the community?
- Discuss the studies that led to the conclusion that the traditional way of doing policing was not working well.
- Discuss some community-building strategies used in community policing.
- What is Problem-Oriented Policing? What are some of the strategies it employs?
- What is the difference between mediation and arbitration? Why should mediation be more successful than arbitration?
- What is the SARA model of problem solving? What does each step involve? (Go to www.popcenter.org for a good explanation of this model. When you reach the site, click “What is POP?” on the left side of the homepage.)
- Discuss the two main responsibilities of courts.
- What are the core values that underly how courts do their work? How do they affect the responsibilities?
- What are the four concepts that explain how courts work today? Explain each.
- In a traditional court system, what has been the role of the victim?
- Where did community courts originate? What were some of the positives and negatives of these early community courts?
- The Midtown Community Court in New York was one of the first modern community courts. Why was it formed? How did it operate? Was it successful?
- What is community prosecution? How does it work? Why do it?
- What is the purpose of community-oriented sanctioning?
- What are drug courts? What is their objective and what means do they utilize to achieve the objective?
- What are teen courts? How do they work?
- What are mental health courts? What is the purpose of establishing them?
- What are the two types of correctional operations?
- What are the themes in traditional correctional services?
- What are the themes in correctional community justice?
- How are traditional correctional themes integrated into the community justice framework?
- What are some of the ways that community justice changes the functions of probation?
- What are some of the ways that community justice changes the function of the jail?
- What are some of the ways that community justice changes the function of the prison?
- What are community justice centers? What are some of the programs that may be operated from community justice centers?
- What are the basic concepts of restorative justice?
- What are the three components of community justice? Explain the role of each.
- What is the philosophy of the Involvement Model of community justice? What are some strengths and weaknesses of the model?
- What is the philosophy of the Partnership Model of community justice? What are some strengths and weaknesses of the model?
- What is the strategy of the Mobilization Model of community justice? What are some strengths and weaknesses of the model?
- What is the Intermediary Model of community justice? What are some strengths and weaknesses of the model?
- What are some considerations for choosing which model is appropriate to use?
- Briefly discuss three of the issues in community justice.
- What things must be done to strengthen the future of community justice?