Accessing Justice in Contemporary America: The Community Needs and Services Study

社区需求和服务研究是一项以社区为基础的多方法研究，旨在调查美国公众在民事司法系统范围内的问题方面的经验。这项研究的重点是围绕个人财务、住房和家庭关系等问题的一系列常见问题。这些问题都是经过精心挑选的，是那些具有民事法律的方面，提出民事法律的问题，并具有民法形成的后果。研究包括三个部分：（1）公众调查，对研究城市的成年居民进行代表性抽样调查，询问选定问题的发生率，对这些问题的反应，以及这些问题对经历这些问题的人的影响;（2）提供者调查，对法律的和非法律的组织和项目进行的调查，这些组织和项目可能为人们提供以下方面的信息或建议，（3）深入访问研究，即对公众意见调查的次样本受访者进行一系列深入的跟进访问。该研究考虑了人们应对司法问题的各种方式，他们可以利用的各种资源，以及法律对人们生活的更广泛影响。

The Community Needs and Services Study is a community-sited, multi-method study investigating the American public's experiences with problems that fall within the purview of the civil justice system. The study focuses on a core set of commonly experienced problems surrounding issues such as personal finances, housing and family relationships. These problems are carefully selected to be those that have civil legal aspects, raise civil legal issues, and have consequences shaped by civil law. The study has three components: (1) The Public Survey, an in-person survey of a representative sample of adult residents of the study city inquiring about the incidence of the selected problems, responses to such problems, and how such problems affect the people who experience them; (2) The Provider Survey, a survey of both legal and non-legal organizations and programs that may provide people with information or advice about, or services for, civil justice problems; (3) The In-depth Interview Study, a series of in-depth follow-up interviews with a subsample of respondents to the Public Survey. The study considers the wide range of ways that people respond to their justice problems, the variety of resources they may draw upon, and the broader impacts of law on people's lives.