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This blog provides brief recommendations for emergency physicians on screening ED patients for intimate partner violence.

This document provides a discussion of how community policing principles might intersect with the core principles of domestic violence organizing: victim safety, offender accountability, and community change.

Excerpt: A reproductive justice analysis of this intersection reveals that traditional HIV interventions fail to account for the societal and structural barriers women face, the effect that social constructs such as gender, patriarchy and culture have on womenÍs health, and the effect of violence on womenÍs reproductive health.

Data outlines characteristics of crime victimization, including time and place of occurrence, weapon use, self protection, injury and medical care, victim-offender relationship, offender characteristics, time lost from work, and economic losses as well as crimes reported and not reported to police, victims' reasons for reporting or not reporting crimes, and police response time.

Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Victimization and Safety has created a roadmap for bringing together agencies at the intersection of violence and disability so that they can create a new and effective approach to safety, healing, and accessibility to services for their clients.

This NIJ special report outlines the issue of untested sexual assault kits that remain in law enforcement custody and evidence rooms and the impact that these kits have on communities and sexual assault response. The report addresses victim notification and protocol when a kit is sent for testing and appropriate follow up.

Excerpt: So how ready are you?

• Identify partners
• Demonstrate forensic nurse capabilities
• Establish MOU
• Establish response protocol
• Identify & organize response kit
• Acquire funding for supplies

This resource includes information on influencing factors that affect children exposed to disasters and emergencies. Minimizing risks through disaster preparedness and response are discussed. It also includes checklists for action.

This document is an analysis based on the Department of DefenseÍs Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies as well as two surveys commissioned by the Department of Defense that examine gender relations in U.S. military academies.

This fact sheet provides important information for SANEÍs on forensic nursing in disaster situations.