TRIAL ANDERROR: FAILURE INNOVATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM / Center for Court Innovation, Summer 2007
PDF - http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/failure.pdf
Greg Berman, Phillip Bowen, and Adam Mansky
"Criminal justice success stories, eg. the sustained reduction in crime in major US cities during the past fifteen years, are poured over by officials from around the world in an effort to distill the lessons and replicate the accomplishments. Best practice manuals, providing protocols intended to guarantee success, are in abundant supply. At the same time, in the criminal justice world, failure is still a whispered word. Rather than focusing attention on well-known achievements in the field, therefore, this "red paper" seeks instead to provoke debate as to why some criminal justice reforms work and some do not. This exploration is not about failures of incompetence or corruption. Rather, this paper is about the kinds of failures in which well-intended efforts fall short of their objectives"