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Courts are at the heart of new thinking and practice, join us at our conference to reflect on courts as a place for innovation.

Jo Thomas finds that courts that hold people to account for their own actions as well as provide support for their issues tend to help tackle the causes of criminal behaviour.

Courts are more innovative, better coordinated and more effective at reducing crime if they are run locally.

At our upcoming conference we will bring together practitioners to think about how English courts can implement innovation to address underlying issues of people in trouble.

Evidence suggests that treatment is the key to a successful drug policy and courts can be used to ensure that drug users get the treatment they need.

How the court service can contribute to crime reduction and can make a difference to the lives of victims, defendants and the communities it serves.

More needs to be done to make domestic violence perpetrators accountable: Specialist domestic violence courts can bring perpetrators to justice by using sentencer reviews.

The golden thread of procedural fairness is the key to court innovation

The next decade of court innovation should be about a swift, certain and fair justice system where a court case is seen as a window of opportunity to tackle the factors that lead to crime.

Drug courts are a cheaper and more effective way for the criminal justice system to deal with people addicted to drugs who would otherwise go to prison. Phil Bowen compares America and the UK.