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Courting the Community: Legitimacy and Punishment in a Community Court,Used
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Community Courts are designed to handle a citys lowlevel offenses and qualityoflife crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the wellbeing of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditional courts might dismiss such cases or administer a small fine, community courts aim to meaningfully punish offenders to avoid disorder escalating to apocalyptic decline.Courting the Community is a fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how qualityoflife discourses are translated into court practices that marry therapeutic and rehabilitative ideas. Christine Zozula shows how residents and businesses participate in meting out justicesuch as through community service, treatment, or other sanctionsmaking it more emotional, less detached, and more legitimate in the eyes of stakeholders. She also examines both impact panels, in which offenders, residents, and business owners meet to discuss how qualityoflife crimes negatively impact the neighborhood, as well as strategic neighborhood outreach efforts to update residents on cases and gauge their concerns.Zozulas nuanced investigation of community courts can lead us to a deeper understanding of punishment and rehabilitation and, by extension, the current state of the American court system.
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