Criminal Justice Content Topic Results
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January 2003
Level Three Sex Offenders Residential Placement Issues: 2003 Report to the Legislature
Publisher(s):This report to the Minnesota Legislature discusses community placement of high-risk sex offenders. The report concludes that residential proximity to potential child victims is unrelated to recidivism risk and that imposing such restrictions unnecessarily complicates the work of corrections staff attempting to reintegrate these men into communities.
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January 2003
Intimate Partner Homicide
Publisher(s):This issue of the NIJ Journal focuses on the topic of intimate partner homicide.
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January 2003
Trafficking in Persons in North America
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Examines the relationship between the US, Canada, and Mexico, how trafficking is connected to that relationship
Briefly reports on trafficking in each of the three countries in the context of the following categories: Background, Legal Initiatives, Prevention Initiatives, Recovery, and Conclusion
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January 2003
Police Reform, Restorative Justice, and Restorative Policing
Publisher(s): This article provides an overview of restorative justice and discusses the role of restorative policing in community policing and police reform. The authors conclude with a discussion of effective strategies for the implementation of restorative policing.
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- NRCDV Publications
December 2002
Women's Experiences of Abuse as a Risk Factor for Incarceration
Publisher(s):Violence perpetrated against women and girls increases their risk of arrest and incarceration; this paper examines the intersections of violence that are forcing abused girls and women into the criminal justice system not as victims, but as offenders.
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September 2002
Bringing Victims into Community Policing
Publisher(s): This resource “focuses on the role of crime victims in advancing community policing and includes first responder guides to dealing with victims of crimes.” It particularly focuses on the issue of working with domestic violence victims.
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June 2002
Firearms and Domestic Violence: A Primer for Judges
Publisher(s):This article provides an overview of related research, judicial response, applicable laws, and effective judicial practice in response to the deadly combination of firearms and domestic violence.
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- Training Tools
April 2002
Managing Sex Offenders in the Community: A Handbook to Guide Policymakers and Practitioners through a Planning and Implementation Process
Publisher(s):This handbook describes a planning and implementation process that is applicable to all jurisdictions, regardless of size, the resources available to manage sex offenders, the improvements you seek, or the level of expertise among those involved in the process.
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March 2002
Offering a Helping Hand: Legal Protections for Battered Immigrant Women, A History of Legislative Responses
This article presents an overview of the history of legal protections for immigrant women who experience domestic violence in the United States. The document notes legal amendments since 1990 that reflect an increased understanding of the danger of domestic violence to the society as a whole and to individual survivors.
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January 2002
From Chastity Requirement to Sexuality License: Sexual Consent and a New Rape Shield Law
This document examines historical and contemporary rape shield laws and concludes with an original model rape shield law designed to meet existing gaps.
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January 2002
Offender Supervision with Electronic Technology
Publisher(s):It is divided into five sections: (1) Developing or enhancing the use of electronic supervision tools, (2) Obtaining and maintaining needed resources, (3) Making technical decisions, (4) Supervising offenders with electronic technologies, and (5) Program Accountability.
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January 2002
Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice
Publisher(s):This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.