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Key Principles of Community Prosecution
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NCCP conducts Community Prosecution Trainings providing prosecutors of all experience levels with valuable information on existing community prosecution programs, creative legal strategies, strategic planning, evaluation techniques and identification of resources to support new efforts. NCCP educates state, local and federal prosecutors in the planning, implementation and enhancement of their community prosecution initiatives.
Publications
Civil Gang Injunctions: A Guide for Prosecutors
As gang crime continues to escalate across the country, prosecutors, law enforcement, community leaders, and allied professionals continually seek innovative methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity. One method, pioneered by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, is the use of gang injunctions. While this use of civil injunction law is certainly an expansion of the traditional purview of prosecutors, existing law in most jurisdictions should provide the necessary framework to enable prosecutors to pursue a gang injunction. And while pursuing such a project takes time and effort, the far-reaching preventative aspects of an injunction are worth the additional work required to obtain them. This publication introduces prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to the specific steps necessary to put into place this innovative and effective process.
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.”
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.
Prosecutor’s Comprehensive Gang Response Model
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.
The Response of Multnomah County to Neighborhood Crime: 1990–2005
This monograph details the Multnomah County (Portland,OR) District Attorney’s community prosecution unit.
Just Look What You've Done
Determining the Effectiveness of Community Prosecution
Lessons from the Field
Ten Community Prosecution Leadership Profiles
From the Courtroom to the Community
Ethics and Liability Issues for the Community Prosecutor
Unwelcome Guests
A Community Prosecution Approach to Street Level Drug Dealing and Prostitution
The Changing Nature of Prosecution
Community Prosecution vs. Traditional Prosecution Approaches
What Does it Mean to Practice Community Prosecution?
Organizational, Functional, and Philosophical Changes
Juvenile Delinquency and Community Prosecution
New Strategies for Old Problems
Neighborhood Community Prosecution Programs
Listen to an NPR Report on a neighborhood prosecutor program in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Trespass-Exclusion Policy
Community prosecutors across the country increasingly use neighborhood access restrictions to combat crimes such as drug dealing and prostitution. In a recent landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld these restrictions.
Conference Materials
Here are the conference materials from the 4th National Community Prosecution Conference, held October 7-9, 2008, in St. Louis. Conference Materials
Technical Assistance
NCCP staff provides prosecutors with new legal strategies to address quality of life issues such as drug houses and street level drug dealing, prostitution, chronic nuisance offenders and problem properties. This technical assistance is provided through:
For technical assistance, please Email Community Prosecution.
Expansions to the Castle Doctrine: Implications for Policy and Practice
This report was made possible with support from the Joyce Foundation. View the PDF here.
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