Healing Criminal Justice

*Healing Criminal Justice* celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the **National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP)**. Written by its founding president and president emeritus, it describes NADCP’s path to nation-wide champion of criminal justice drug reform. The central theme of Healing Criminal Justice is the rediscovery of the healing power of community within the criminal justice system. Judge Tauber lays out a vision of the future in which society, recoiling from an over-reliance on imprisonment, returns to its historic use of community to control criminal behavior. Healing Criminal Justice also speaks to how leadership from within can change the trajectory of a major institution, even one as immovable as the criminal justice system. In Healing Criminal Justice, Judge Tauber describes his experience as one of the nation’s first drug court judges and how a nascent field with a few scattered programs was transformed into a nationwide movement. He recalls his worldwide travels as well as his experience as a struggling saxman playing in Oakland’s blues clubs, and how both contributed to his understanding of one of the most vital elements in the criminal justice system: community. Judge Jeffrey Tauber (ret.) is currently the Director of Reentry Court Solutions, an educational initiative that provides a nation-wide information website; as well as technical assistance, training, and advisory services to the field.