What are community courts, and how do they integrate official/formal and unofficial/informal notions of customs and the law? Do you feel that community courts are better suited to consider socio-cultural dimensions of crime and policing? If so, would you consider this a positive judicial reform? If not, do you feel that we should strive to better incorporate socio-cultural dimensions within our judicial system?
Required texts:
“Red Hook Experiment” by Carter
“Welcome to Problem Solving: Kelly O’Neil Levy Embraces Her New Assignment as Presiding Judge of the Harlem Community Justice Center”