Procedural Justice and Trust Building
What if a simple, inexpensive idea could help improve public safety and rebuild trust and confidence between communities and government? This session will provide an overview of procedural justice research – a concept that holds these promises. The session will review how various agencies and jurisdictions have leveraged this idea to improve compliance and build public trust in a variety of justice system settings. The session will also explore what evaluation tools are available off the shelf and what the latest research from system users suggests about how they define fairness.
Speakers:
Emily Gold LaGratta, J.D.
Emily LaGratta, J.D., is a justice reform consultant and innovator who has worked with courts and other justice agencies across the country since 2009. Before starting LaGratta Consulting, Emily was the Director of Procedural Justice Initiatives at the Center for Court Innovation, where she oversaw a multi-million-dollar consulting practice on the topics of procedural justice and community justice. She has designed and guided the implementation of innovative programming in courts, prosecutor and defender offices, and community and institutional corrections agencies, developed practitioner resources, and trained hundreds of justice system professionals.
Kim Ball
Kim is the Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of KimBall Strategies, a firm that provides strategic planning, training, and expert assistance for agencies and organizations on emerging legal issues. Kim leveraged her background as a former Director and Research Professor at American University’s Justice Programs Office (JPO), where she secured multiple grants, conducted research, and advocated for legal policy reforms in areas such as right to counsel, prosecutorial diversion, pretrial justice, and procedural fairness.
Materials:
- Introduction (6:00)
- Building Trust (9:06)
- Procedural Justice History (4:49)
- Real World Examples (9:42)
- Discussion – Elective (9:49)
- Resources (3:15)
- To Be Fair: Conversations About Procedural Justice
- Measuring Perceptions of Fairness: An Evaluation Toolkit