ABSTRACT
The key initial audience for the new Court included members of a network of public and private neighborhood improvement organizations active in Clinton, Chelsea and Times Square. One community leader in Midtown portrayed the Midtown Community Court as being oriented to “concentric circles of attentive publics.” Community leaders formed the innermost circle, the primary target for involvement. Concerned residents and merchants, affected by quality-of-life crime, formed the next ring. The extensive publicity that the Court generated in both citywide and local news media provided an avenue for reaching the outer rings of the “attentive publics.”
