This special issue of the Griffith Law Review emerged from a Symposium, the Space of Justice, which brought together lawyers, magistrates and judges, court workers, policy makers, architects and academics from the US, UK and Australia, to think about how justice could be housed, practiced, and imagined differently. The articles collected here are drawn from the contributions and rich conversations between the diverse participants. One of the powerful stories that emerged during the two day meeting was the need to redesign not only courthouses and courtrooms themselves, but perhaps more importantly, the ideology and delivery of justice within those spaces. In her opening address, Pat Carlen spoke of revisiting the courtrooms she examined in her groundbreaking 1976 workMagistrates’ Justice. Published as the foreword to this collection, Carlen writes that over the intervening years, the formal organization of courtrooms has seen substantial changes, from the provision of segregated waiting areas for victims and defendants, the inclusion of cafes and shops, to the less obvious domination of courts by police, to changes in architecture which focus on the idealism of law rather than the awfulness of the power of law to punish. However, she writes that these improvements have not been sufficiently radical to render courts able to deliver better justice outcomes. In her 2017 observations, she found that court processes continue to be infused with class and cultural hierarchies with the result that, despite clear attempts to remedy problems she and others have identified, traditional courts engage in ‘structured disrespect for... [their] routine business’. The Victorian-based Neighborhood Justice Centre (NJC) is an icon of radically reconfigured justice, where the practices and processes within the building have been as deliberately and thoughtfully restructured as the courthouse design itself. Halsey and de VelPalumbo describe the ‘empathetic and respectful approach to NJC client engagement’ as the primary reason that the NJC has had such a beneficial impact on its community. Not only has this approach resulted in a statistically significant reduction in recidivism in NJC clients, but it has also led to the NJC becoming an important and welcoming gathering space for the local community.

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正义空间：法庭、创新与实践

本期《格里菲斯法律评论》特刊出自“正义空间”研讨会，该研讨会汇集了来自美国、英国和澳大利亚的律师、地方法官和法官、法院工作人员、政策制定者、建筑师和学者，共同思考如何实现正义被安置、实践和想象不同。这里收集的文章来自不同参与者之间的贡献和丰富的对话。在为期两天的会议中出现的一个强有力的故事是，不仅需要重新设计法院和法庭本身，而且可能更重要的是，需要重新设计这些空间内的意识形态和司法公正。在她的开幕词中，帕特·卡伦 (Pat Carlen) 谈到了她在 1976 年开创性的作品《治安法官》中审查的法庭。作为本集的前言出版，卡伦写道，在此期间，法庭的正式组织发生了重大变化，从为受害者和被告人提供隔离的等候区、咖啡馆和商店的加入，到警察对法院的不太明显的控制，到专注于法律的理想主义而不是法律惩罚权力的可怕性的建筑。然而，她写道，这些改进还不足以使法院能够提供更好的司法结果。在她 2017 年的观察中，她发现法院程序继续融入阶级和文化等级制度，结果是，尽管她和其他人已经明确尝试解决问题，但传统法院“有组织地不尊重...... [他们的]日常业务”。位于维多利亚州的邻里司法中心 (NJC) 是彻底改造司法的标志，建筑内的做法和流程与法院设计本身一样经过深思熟虑的重组。Halsey 和 de VelPalumbo 将“对 NJC 客户参与的同情和尊重的方法”描述为 NJC 对其社区产生如此有益影响的主要原因。这种方法不仅在统计上显着减少了 NJC 客户的累犯率，而且还使 NJC 成为当地社区重要且受欢迎的聚会场所。Halsey 和 de VelPalumbo 将“对 NJC 客户参与的同情和尊重的方法”描述为 NJC 对其社区产生如此有益影响的主要原因。这种方法不仅在统计上显着减少了 NJC 客户的累犯率，而且还使 NJC 成为当地社区重要且受欢迎的聚会场所。Halsey 和 de VelPalumbo 将“对 NJC 客户参与的同情和尊重的方法”描述为 NJC 对其社区产生如此有益影响的主要原因。这种方法不仅在统计上显着减少了 NJC 客户的累犯率，而且还使 NJC 成为当地社区重要且受欢迎的聚会场所。