Civil Legal Rights & Protections Content Topic Results
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January 2014
The Collaboration Toolkit for Community Organizations: Effective Strategies to Partner with Law Enforcement
Publisher(s):This toolkit outlines how to strengthen partnerships between the community and law enforcement, further the community's role as a partner in crime reduction efforts, identify and address social issues that diminish the quality of life and threaten public safety in communities, and link those in need to services and resources that currently exist in the community.
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- General Material
January 2014
Public Benefits Flow Charts: VAWA Self‐Petition and Cancellation, U-Visas, T-Visas, and SIJS
Publisher(s): The public benefits flow charts pertain to VAWA self-petition and cancellation, U-Visas, T-Visas, and Special Juvenile Immigrant Status (SIJS).
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- General Material
January 2014
The National Domestic Violence Pro Bono Directory
Publisher(s):This directory includes a comprehensive guide to volunteer opportunities in different states. At the top of the above-listed webpage, attorneys can find a link to the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Guide. Attorneys can then select the state in which they wish to offer their pro bono services.
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- General Material
January 2014
Teen Dating Violence
Publisher(s):This Web page highlights the role of policy makers in preventing teen dating violence and includes a list of state laws related to teen dating violence from across the country.
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- General Material
November 2013
Child Labor in America: History, Policy, and Legislative Issues
Publisher(s):This report examines the historical issue of child labor in the United States and summarizes the legislation that has been introduced from the 108th to the 113th Congress.
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- General Material
November 2013
Domestic Violence as a Factor to be Considered in Custody/Visitation Determinations
Publisher(s):Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody (RCDV:CPC), National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
This chart depicts states where domestic violence is given extra weight under the best interest of the child (BIC) factors and states where there is a domestic violence exception to considering certain best interest of the child (BIC) factors.
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November 2013
Tribal Law and Order Commission Report: A Roadmap for Making Native America Safer
Publisher(s):This report provides the most comprehensive assessments ever undertaken of criminal justice systems services Native American and Alaska Native communities. It clears up many of the previous studies that lack the understanding of the Alaska criminal justice landscape and Alaska Native Indian law principles that are not in accordance with Lower 48 tribes and jurisdiction.
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September 2013
Hitting Them Where It Hurts: Strategies for Seizing Assets in Human Trafficking Cases
Publisher(s):This issue discusses civil and criminal asset forfeiture as a tool in prosecuting cases of human trafficking and related crimes.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
September 2013
Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: A Research Review
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This Applied Research paper provides a historical and research overview of Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation, identifies strategic issues for advocates working with victims, and offers guidelines to improve courts’ treatment of these issues.
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September 2013
Policy Implications of Recognizing that Caregiver Stress is Not the Primary Cause of Elder Abuse
Publisher(s):Studies show the causes of elder abuse to be wide-ranging, and not necessarily an outcome of caregiver stress. This paper discusses how seeing caregiver stress as a primary cause of abuse has unintended and detrimental consequences that affect the efforts to end this widespread problem.
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August 2013
Recommendations for Administrators of Prisons, Jails, and Community Confinement Facilities for Adapting the U.S. Department of Justice’s "A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, Adults/Adolescents"
Publisher(s):This guide is designed to assist administrators of prisons, jails, and community confinement facilities in drafting or revising protocols for an immediate response to reports of sexual assault.
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July 2013
Breaking Barriers: A Complete Guide to Legal Rights and Resources for Battered Immigrants
Publisher(s):This Manual focuses on legal rights and options for immigrant survivors of domestic violence including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse and abuse perpetrated by other family members or persons that are covered by your state's protection order statute. Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive tool that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence.