Conflict Intervention as Crime Prevention

Advancing Dispute Resolution

Advancing Dispute Resolution is a creative consultancy and research entity working throughout the conflict field tackling substantively and technically demanding projects, enhancing public resonance, and moving the dispute resolution field further, faster.

Justin R. Corbett

Justin is the Chief Project Officer for Advancing Dispute Resolution. He served as the primary architect of this evaluation and author of the following report and included data visualizations. For questions or commentary regarding this report, he can be contacted at: Corbett@AdvancingDR.org, Linkedin.com/in/JustinRCorbett, or ORCID.org/0000-0002-1103-9774.

Personal Acknowledgments

Outsized thanks are due to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice for its generous support of this evaluation; the service providers, their volunteers and clients for wide-ranging access to both materials and countless candid, compelling moments; and to the many interviewees who helped construct the elegant frame in which this report is humbly hung. Special thanks, as always, to my conspirator, Wendy, and our best of, Phoenix, for their unending indulgence of my professional passion projects.

Funding Acknowledgment

Research reported in this publication was supported by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice under awards for the evaluation of Borough-wide mediation programming (00215MOCJ003) and the evaluation of Catchment Area mediation programs (P00215MOCJ004).

Disclaimer

The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.

License

This is an open-access report licensed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original author and source are credited.