Criminal Justice Content Topic Results

This briefing paper defines and provides examples of gender-biased policing, suggests ways for police departments to address bias that may underlie certain practices and policies, and offers steps advocates can take to work toward police reform.

This booklet is a primer on orders of protection and full faith in credit.  This guide helps law enforcement better implement the “full faith and credit” component of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which requires law enforcement officers to enforce valid orders across the boundaries of states, tribes, and territories.

Because transferring and viewing sexually explicit material when the subject is a minor can be considered child pornography, sexting among minors can have serious legal consequences. This article explores some of the legal implications of teen sexting.

The purpose of the Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault is to fill gaps in current research and identify best practices in campus police response to sexual assault. This resource is intended to serve as a guide or toolkit for police at all levels (chief executives, investigation, and patrol) in response to sexual assault crimes with the implementation of victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches.

This page outlines the problems that black trans, queer, and gender nonconforming people face with institutions such as police and prisons, employment, healthcare, housing. It also offers action steps for the federal, state, and local levels.

This video provides an overview of Adult Protective Services and how their investigations differ from a law enforcement investigation.

This webinar, hosted by Professor Leigh Goodmark, Director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law, discusses the findings of her investigation into law enforcement-perpetrated domestic violence.

This video provides an overview of mandatory reporting of elder abuse or vulnerable adult abuse.

In August 2015, law enforcement officials, victim advocates, academics, and other subject matter experts convened to discuss a draft of the Department of Justice’s Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias in Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence publication and to share promising practices and to develop effective strategies for serving victims of these crimes. This document shares the discussion and opinions of the participants who attended the roundtable.

This article describes the case of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former police officer in Oklahoma City who was accused of raping thirteen women while on duty over a 6-month period and was ultimately convicted on 18 counts of rape and sexual assault.

This guidance document from the U.S. Department of Justice is intended to reflect and further the department’s partnership with the police leaders, line officers and detectives who work to ensure that policing is free from bias and to uphold the civil and human rights of the communities they serve. Also included are a summary of the guidance and press release from Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.

The Tribal Law and Order Act became law on July 29, 2010.