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Evaluation of the Midtown Community Court in New York City, 1992-1994

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Principal Investigator(s): Rottman, David; Ostrom, Brian; Sviridoff, Michele; Curtis, Richard

Summary: In October 1993, the Midtown Community Court opened as a three-year demonstration project designed to forge links with the community in developing a problem-solving approach to quality-of-life offenses. The problems that this community-based courthouse sought to address were specific to the court's midtown New York City location: high concentration of quality-of-life crimes, broad community dissatisfaction with court outcomes, visible signs of disorder, and clusters of persistent high-rate ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02311.v1

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