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Community Prosecution Techniques to Reduce Drug-Related Gang Activity
Within the last decade or so, gangs have migrated to suburban and, in some instances, rural jurisdictions across America. Community prosecutors are uniquely situated to proactively implement strategies that anticipate potential neighborhood problems and create safer communities. This monograph offers community prosecution tools that reduce gang crime by using trespass laws to eliminate gang “hot spots.”
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Managing Innovation: A Closer Look at Community Prosecution Management Issues
In community prosecution, unlike traditional prosecution, community prosecutors involve neighborhood residents in identifying crime and crime-related issues and community members work together with prosecutors to formulate solutions (Gramckow, 1997). To investigate the differences between these approaches, in 2004, the American Prosecutors Research Institute’s (APRI) Office of Research and Evaluation, the research and development division of the National District Attorneys Association, conducted a survey of all prosecutors throughout the nation.
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Prosecutor’s Comprehensive Gang Response Model
With funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the National District Attorneys Association’s American Prosecutors Research Institute initiated an effort to help prosecutors formulate a comprehensive response to gang problems in their communities. The Prosecutor’s Comprehensive Gang Response Model, presented in this monograph, is the result of a three-day symposium in which experts from the fields of prosecution, policing, juvenile justice, state and local government, schools, community-based organizations, faith-based groups and researchers convened to discuss successful approaches in gang prevention, intervention, suppression, and reentry.
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The Response of Multnomah County to Neighborhood Crime: 1990–2005
This monograph details the Multnomah County (Portland,OR) District Attorney’s community prosecution unit and provides statistical data to support the argument that the implementation of community prosecution in Portland contributed to the decline in crime.
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Just Look What You've Done
Determining The Effectiveness of Community Prosecution - This monograph is designed to help prosecutors understand how to look at the totality of their efforts by defining goals and objectives and how to use these goals and objectives to gauge the overall effectiveness of the offices’ community prosecution efforts. The experiences of a few jurisdictions that have strived to document their successes are also included.
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Lessons from the Field
“Community prosecution, like the community policing movement, is grounded…in the theory that involving ordinary citizens as co-producers of safety and public order will reap important benefits both for the community and for criminal justice agencies.”
Ten Community Prosecution Leadership Profiles - This monograph provides a summary of promising practices utilized by ten national community prosecution leaders: The City of Dallas, TX; The City and County of Denver, CO; Fulton County (Atlanta), GA; Hennepin County (Minneapolis), MN; Kalamazoo County (Kalamazoo) MI; Kings County (Brooklyn), NY; Marion County (Indianapolis), IN; Multnomah County (Portland), OR; Travis County (Austin),TX; and Washington D.C. Each of these jurisdictions serves as a model for community prosecution based upon its efforts in crime prevention, intervention, and targeted law enforcement, and each represents a unique response to the ever-changing social and law enforcement challenges of the 21st century.
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From the Courtroom to the Community
Ethics and Liability Issues for the Community Prosecutor - To best understand the ethical dilemmas that may arise in community prosecution, a brief examination of what constitutes an ethical prosecution function is in order. The conventional role of the prosecutor and the ethical principles that guide prosecutors in this traditional role are considered first. Challenges to these ethical principles that emerge in the evolving community-based prosecution role are then discussed.
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Unwelcome Guests
A Community Prosecution Approach to Street Level Drug Dealing and Prostitution - Street prostitutes and drug dealers are business people. They have a service or product that they provide to willing purchasers in exchange for either cash or another product in return. Unlike most legitimate businesses, however, their business enterprises bring with them a host of problems, which is why they are also illegal. This monograph addresses promising practices to abate these crimes of livability and highlights creative strategies developed by community prosecutors.
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The Changing Nature of Prosecution
Community Prosecution vs. Traditional Prosecution Approaches - The American Prosecutors Research Institute’s (APRI) Office of Research and Evaluation conducted a census of prosecutors in attempt to bring greater clarity to the issue of community prosecution and its impact on the nature of prosecution.
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What Does it Mean to Practice Community Prosecution?
Organizational, Functional, and Philosophical Changes - Loosely defined, community prosecution is the new “buzz word” in prosecution. Yet for policymakers, academics, and others, community prosecution remains an amorphous concept. What are its defining characteristics, and what does it really mean to practice community prosecution?
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Juvenile Delinquency and Community Prosecution
New Strategies for Old Problems - This monograph provides a brief explanation of community prosecution, an overview of the potential interface between community prosecution and juvenile justice, a discussion of the legal and systemic issues that APRI uncovered during its site visits, a review of some common issues identified between community prosecution and juvenile justice, and a brief comparison of community prosecution to another emerging juvenile justice philosophy, balanced and restorative justice.
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 Community Prosecution Planning and Implementation Workbook (Revised 2003)
The Community Prosecution Planning and Implementation Workbook contains forms with individualized instructions that can be used as a resource for jurisdictions planning and implementing community prosecution initiatives.
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 Community Prosecution Implementation Manual
The Community Prosecution Implementation Manual gives prosecutors a general overview of the concept of community prosecution and provides a "hands-on," step-by-step guide on how to implement a program.
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 Community Prosecution - A Guide for Prosecutors
The guide chronicles the innovative works of prosecutors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Brooklyn, New York; Kansas City, Missouri; Manhattan, New York; Portland, Oregon; and Montgomery County, Maryland. This guide was developed to provide prosecutors throughout the nation with a sampling of the unique aspects of those programs.
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Community Prosecution Newsletter - Building Bridges
If you would like to submit an article for the newsletter please email communityprosecution@ndaa.org.
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