Publications

The old cliché “It takes a village” is often used to refer to the rearing of children. However, it can also be used to describe the leveraging of networks to improve an organization’s capacity. As North Carolina begins the long recovery process from the pandemic, the resiliency of the state’s community development organizations (CDOs) is critical. How CDOs access and mobilize social capital is...

A child as young as 6 can be a respondent in a delinquency proceeding in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system. This is often referred to as the “minimum age” of juvenile jurisdiction. As potential respondents in a delinquency proceeding, these young children can be

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across North Carolina, criminal jury trials have resumed in some districts following a six-month hiatus. Their resumption has raised a number of issues, among them whether the State may present remote testimony of its witnesses by electronic means to mitigate the risk of contracting the virus, as opposed to requiring them to appear in court. While courts may...

Outcome measures are fundamental to performance measurement systems in local government, representing the primary means for reporting on the service dimension of effectiveness. The performance measurement process begins with the department’s mission, followed by service delivery goals and SMART (specific, measurable, aggressive, result-oriented, and time-bound) objectives. The next step is to...