NCJ Number
206686
Journal
Innovation Exchange Issue: 11 Dated: 2004 Pages: 1-63
Editor(s)
Naomi Shapira
Date Published
2004
Length
63 pages
Annotation
This issue of the Innovation Exchange from Israel offers articles describing innovations and implementations in the areas of policy, policing, corrections, and technology.
Abstract
The first section on policy innovations presents six articles. The first article discusses the improved methods for shooting distance estimation for which Chief Superintendent Baruch Glattstein was awarded the Minister’s Prize for Research and Development 2002. The second article focuses on public security issues in Israel in the face of terrorist threat, while the third article discusses privatizing Israeli prisons. The fourth article focuses on the relationship of terrorism to crime in modern Israel, and the fifth article discusses the establishment of a community emergency center. The final article in this section describes experiments in family group conferencing with crime-involved youth in Israel. The second section presents three articles on policing innovation. The first discusses the impending implementation of Israel’s criminal DNA bank, while the second focuses on policing a democracy under the constant threat of terrorism. The third article discusses restorative justice for juveniles. The third section contains eight articles on innovations in corrections. The first article examines the system of employment for prisoners in the Israel Prison Service (IPS), while the second article describes the partnership between the Manufacturers Association of Israel and the IPS that is training and employing Israeli prisoners. The third article discusses the accomplishments at Shatta Prison’s industrial park and in prisoner employment in general, and the fourth article describes how the IPS received the five-star award of the Council for a Beautiful Israel for the design of two of its manufacturing facilities. The fifth article describes the BET HATIKVA project, which garnered the IPS the ICPA’s International Prize, while the sixth article focuses on how to transfer prisoners from overseas to Israel. The seventh article describes the BET HATIKVA project in more depth, which offers national domestic violence treatment within the Israeli prison system. The final article in this section on corrections focuses on the role of mediation within Israel prisons. The final section on technological innovation presents one article that describes a variety of recent innovations including the Information Management in Training (MIT), which is a computerized service designed to maintain and upgrade the training of law enforcement officers on a continual basis, and a development that allows officers to connect to the Internet with a standard IP-issue mobile phone.