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What Is Community Justice?

Community justice promotes offender supervision, accountability, and treatment within a community context and seeks to foster partnerships between the criminal justice system and the community. The goals of community justice initiatives often include: enhancing community safety, victim restitution, and successful reintegration of the offender into the community. A wide variety of initiatives, programs, and strategies fall under the heading of community justice, including:

• Community policing and police-community corrections partnerships;
• Problem-solving or specialized courts, such as mental health courts and courts;
• Community prosecution;
• Reentry programs;
• Victim services, including restorative justice programs;
• Community planning/mobilization initiatives.

BJA Resources Related to Community Justice

Community Corrections
Community Planning
BJA Bulletin: Community Prosecution Strategies: Measuring Impact
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Dallas, Texas
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Denver, Colorado
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Hennepin County (Minneapolis), Minnesota
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Kalamazoo County, Michigan
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Kings County (Brooklyn), New York
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Marion County (Indianapolis), Indiana
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Multnomah County (Portland), Oregon
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: Travis County (Austin), Texas
BJA Community Prosecution Leadership Site: United State District Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia

Other Resources for Community Justice

American Probation and Parole Association: Community Justice Concepts and Strategies
American Prosecutors Research Institute
The Community Justice Exchange
National Institute of Corrections' Services and Resources for Community Corrections

State and Local Community Justice Resources

Department of Community Justice, Multnomah County, Oregon
Downtown Austin Community Court
Fulton, Georgia Community Prosecution Program
Marion County Community Court
Marion County Community Prosecution
Multnomah County District Attorney's Office
Seminole County Community Justice Coalition

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