Community Resource Court

Human Resource Management in the Wisconsin Court System

In addition to ruling on cases, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court is responsible for managing more than 360 employees who work around the state in agencies that staff the appellate courts, license and discipline lawyers, interpret for litigants who do not speak English, provide library and reference services, and maintain a database of legal proceedings and records. As the scope and complexity ...

Upgrading community treatment through a mental health court

Methods The sample is 65 persons, co-morbid with substance abuse and severe mental illness, who volunteered for mental health court after conviction of a felony or serious misdemeanor over a four-year period. Their jail days, hospital days, and arrests and convictions post-MHC are compared to their history over a comparable period prior to entry. Outcomes of graduates are compared to those disc...

Hawking Neighborhood Justice: Unlicensed Vending in the Midtown Community Court

Bridging Community Resource Gateways by Linking Community Taxonomies

Many communities provide Web resource directories to help users find useful resources in the community. A typical example is a resource directory in a homepage of a local government. Crosswalk of the directories of neighboring communities is a crucial function for users to collect useful resources from the communities. However, an appropriate scheme bridging the community directories is require...

Community-based resource building and data collection

The paper describes our work on participatory and community-based resource collection for the Sami language. This includes community events where participants wrote new Sami Wikipedia articles and took part in speech data collection by reading aloud Sami Wikipedia articles and discussing freely in group conversations. The aim was to increase the number of Sami Wikipedia articles and thereby str...