Felony Courts
Assessing the Impact of Dade County's Felony Drug Court: Executive Summary
Victim Impact Statements: Their Effects on Court Outcomes and Victim Satisfaction
Gideon at 60: A Snapshot of State Public Defense Systems and Paths to System Reform
Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion In Florida Felony Courts
Courtroom Communities: Criminal Case Processing and Sentencing Reform
Repeat Player Police Officers and Prosecutorial Charge Reduction Decisions: A Note
Misdemeanor Courts and the Choice of Sanctions - A Comparative View
Specialized Felony Domestic Violence Courts: Lessons on Implementation and Impacts From the Kings County Experience (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Elements of the Defense Attorney's Craft - An Adaptive Expectations Model of the Preliminary Hearing Decision
Fines in Sentencing - A Study of the Fine as a Criminal Sanction
Estimating the Population at Risk for Violence During Child Visitation
Client Games: Defense Attorney Perspectives on Their Relations With Criminal Clients
Impact of Community Policing on the Criminal Justice System
Split Sentencing in Georgia: A Test of Two Empirical Assumptions
Neighborhood Effects on Felony Sentencing
Reforming New Orleans' Criminal Justice System: The Role of Data and Research
With its criminal justice system in disarray following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans invited the Vera Institute of Justice to examine the city's court and jail operations. For five years, Vera has been tracking arrest-to-first-appearance time, custodial arrests versus summonses, the granting of pretrial release, and many other decision-making points. Based on analysis of these data, Vera is making policy recommendations to assist with the implementation of new procedures and to ensure performance monitoring.