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dc.contributor.authorLanni, Adriaan M.
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-01T20:36:09Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationAdriaan Lanni, The Future of Community Justice, 40 Harvard C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 359 (2005).en_US
dc.identifier.issn0017-8039en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3333572
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, a series of crime control practices known collectively as community justice have reintroduced rehabilitation and discretion to control certain minor crimes. This parallel system for approaching minor crime has flourished, even as the mainstream criminal system faces a crisis of legitimacy. This Article examines whether we can apply aspects of the community justice movement to improve the processing of serious crime in the mainstream criminal system. It assesses current community justice practices—community prosecution, community courts, sentencing circles, and citizen reparative boards—and finds that they have structural and procedural defects that should bar their use for serious crime. However, the chief innovation of the community justice movement—localized, popular decision-making—would alleviate many of the problems facing the criminal justice system. The Article argues that it may be possible to implement the goals of community justice while avoiding the defects of the current reform initiatives by restructuring the grand jury procedure and permitting local communities to sentence offenders.en_US
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dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/crcl/vol40_2/lanni.pdfen_US
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dc.subjectsocietyen_US
dc.subjectpolicingen_US
dc.titleThe Future of Community Justiceen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalHarvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Reviewen_US
dash.depositing.authorLanni, Adriaan M.
dc.date.available2009-10-01T20:36:09Z
dash.contributor.affiliatedLanni, Adriaan


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