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Read more →Published: May 7, 2013 | Pew Research Center, Criminal Justice Trends Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government…
Published May 2012 | Pew Research Center on Demographic Trends The Great Recession’s impact on families, wealth, children, young adults, older Americans and other realms of life raises intriguing questions. There’s been a recent surge of interest in its affect on divorce and whether and how the poor economy has an impact on marriage dissolution…
Springfield, IL – In mid-May 2013, two NCMC officers – President Judge Pamela Dembe and Executive Director Gordy Griller – participated as members of a faculty team that presented a 1 ½ day retreat on Trial Court Leadership for the Illinois Conference of Chief Circuit Court Judges. Judicial leaders from all 24 Illinois Judicial Circuits…
Los Angeles Superior Court Executive Officer John (Jack) A. Clarke recently announced his retirement effective March 31, 2013, culminating a very productive and active 18 year career with the court. Previously, Mr. Clarke served as the Trial Court Executive for the Superior Court in Essex Vicinage (Greater Newark) New Jersey, that state’s largest court. The…
At the 2013 Mid-Year Conference of the National Association for Court Management (NACM), leaders of the National Conference of Metropolitan Courts (NCMC) met with NACM Board Members to discuss a closer relationship between the two groups. It is envisioned that such a collaboration would help to re-invigorate membership in both organizations, jointly strengthen educational programming,…
The National Conference of Metropolitan Courts has obtained a small State Justice Institute grant to conduct a experimental six-month, telephonic, confidential group mentoring and coaching program for relatively new presiding and chief judges and judges who have been identified as “on a presiding judge leadership track” in multi-judge courts. The program is open to state…
June 21, 2012 National Judicial College Newsletter, June 2012 A no-fee online course for new general jurisdiction judges has been developed by the National Judicial College located at the University of Nevada, Reno. It is a 6 to 9 hour self-study curriculum for judges to take after election or appointment to the bench. Although it…
