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The Filmmaker

Sugar Pictures
Filmmaker Meema Spadola’s production company Web site includes information on past and upcoming films and links to relevant news and resources.

Reentry National Outreach Campaign: Red Hook Justice
The media outreach site for RED HOOK JUSTICE includes producer’s notes, a downloadable discussion guide with further background on the Red Hook Community Justice Center and planning and facilitation guides on working with audiences and outreach partners.

ITVS: OUR HOUSE
Produced and directed by Spadola, OUR HOUSE profiles the sons in daughters in five diverse families with gay or lesbian parents.

PBS: Independent Lens: GUNS & MOTHERS
Also produced by Spadola, this Independent Lens film profiles two women that represent two different advocacy groups and grassroots movements regarding gun control in America.

Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts
By Meema Spadola
(Wildcat Canyon Press, 1998)
Written by Spadola—who also directed and produced a documentary by the same name—this book features stories on how breasts shape women’s lives.

WBEZ in Chicago: This American Life
Listen to Spadola’s three radio documentaries on this NPR show site: “The Business of Death”, “Dreamhouse” and “Throwing the First Punch”.

The Red Hook Community Justice Center

2003 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence: Red Hook Community Justice Center
Learn more about the Center and its medal awarded by the Bruner Foundation in recognition of its empowerment of the community. Read the publication chapter to get a timeline and more detailed information about the Center and its work (available as a PDF download).

Red Hook Community Justice Center
Find out about the Center’s services, practices, approaches, technology and more.

New Statesman: Breaking the Boundaries
This 2004 profile of the Center discusses its impact on Red Hook’s plummeting crime rates.

Community Justice

Community Justice Exchange
Learn more about the history and principles of community courts and read a planning guide and a diary on the creation of the Red Hook Community Justice Center.

Center for Court Innovation
New York City’s Center for Court Innovation is “a unique public-private partnership that is dedicated to enhancing the performance of courts and those whose work intersects with the courts.” Read about its many projects, including the RHCJC.

Advancement Project: Community Justice Resource Center
The CJRC supports the community justice movement by facilitating communications and information exchange. See their newsletter, events calendar and other online tools.

Brennan Center Criminal Justice Program: Community Justice Institute
Through publications, counseling, survey work and direct action, the Community Justice Institute serves as a resource for community groups, activists and defenders working to improve justice policies at the local, state and national levels.

Problem-Solving Courts
This Web site from the Center for Court Innovation contains basic principles, results, a chronology and more regarding problem-solving courts today.

The Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice
The CJCJ promotes criminal and juvenile justice policy reform through strategic research, policy analysis, public education and model programs.

The New York Times: In Problem-Solving Court, Judges Turn Therapist
Learn more about New York’s innovative problem-solving courts and the judges working in the revolutionary field of “therapeutic jurisprudence.” (Registration may be required.)

360degrees: Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System
In tandem with the NPR series Prison Diaries, this interactive site features perspectives on criminal justice cases told by all the people involved. Watch, read and listen to stories of inmates, correctional officers, victims, parole officers, lawyers and family members. View a timeline on the history of the criminal justice system, get statistics and discuss your ideas on the forum.

Todd Clear
Featured as an interviewee in RED HOOK JUSTICE, Clear is a noted criminal justice professor and author. Read his current and past work regarding justice policy, communities and justice, corrections policies and more.

Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice
By Greg Berman and John Feinblatt
(The New Press, 2005)
This book by Greg Berman and John Feinblatt—both of whom were instrumental in creating the Red Hook Community Justice Center—explores the community justice movement in-depth.

Red Hook

New York Newsday: Hooked on Red Hook
View a slideshow photo tour of Red Hook and an interactive neighborhood map and hear residents talk about their neighborhood in “Voices of Red Hook.”

Brooklyn Community Board 6: Neighborhoods: Red Hook
Read about the neighborhood’s current needs, challenges and changes in this profile from the City of New York.

Gotham Gazette: Ikea and Red Hook’s Racial Divide
This 2004 article details the controversies involved with the proposed Ikea superstore on the Red Hook waterfront.

The Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge
The museum, located on Red Hook’s historic waterfront, features photos and a neighborhood history on its Web site.