What are some of the primary strengths of rural courts?
Rural courts allow strong personal connections between the litigants and court officials to develop. Often, litigants know or are familiar with court employees in rural districts. This provides friendly and personal service that urban courts often lack. Judges might interact with all the family members that are brought up on different offenses. Rural courts are more community centered than urban courts. It is much harder to commit a crime in a small town without having a witness that can identify you or that someone in your family knows. Rural courts have used this to their advantage.
