Criminal Justice Content Topic Results

This guide is a part of the Critical Issues in Policing Series and offers information and tools based on updated statistical findings on prevalence and incidence of sexual assault, changes in crime reporting definitions, special considerations in working with cases of sexual violence, and feedback from advocates on the benefits of incorporating external review.

This report offers information on progress made in the implementation of monitoring, analysis, and reporting arrangements and the placement of women’s protection advisers. It also includes information about parties to conflict credibility suspected of committing or being responsible for sexual violence and United Nations' progress in addressing conflict-related sexual violence.

This powerpoint presents information about processing U visa overseas, challenges involved in the process, and strategies to address the challenges.

The complex issues surrounding the delivery of justice and law enforcement in rural Alaska are profound and acute. In this report, the Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission  (“Commission”) offers recommendations that have emerged from the fact finding and deliberative processes in which the Commission has engaged.

This article examines links between gender violence and mass incarceration and addresses political failures within the antiracism and antiviolence movements that may contribute to the legitimacy of the contemporary punishment culture.

This document offers an overview of performance measures, offers strategies for “flagging” elder abuse cases, and provides logistics and tools required to collect, analyze and interpret each measure.

This guide provides an overview of court participation in multidisciplinary collaboration to more effectively address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It suggests ways that multidisciplinary partnerships can assist courts in effectively respond to individual cases and in improving systemic community responses to elder abuse.

An important capacity-building goal of the Open Doors Project is to enhance the community collaboration between DV/SA advocates, community service providers and those working in the criminal justice and corrections systems. The goal of these collaborations is to facilitate a shared objective of keeping women safe and out of jails and prisons.

This toolkit provides guidance to mental health practitioners and agencies on how to respond to subpoenas and other demands to produce client mental health records in ways that will maximize client safety and autonomy.

The Department of Justice opened an investigation of the Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff’s Office (MCSCO) in March 2008. This letter highlights factual and legal findings on the violations committed.

From 1980 to 2008, nearly 1 out of 5 murder victims were killed by an intimate, and 2 out of 5 female murder victims were killed by an intimate.

This report contains the findings of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s pattern and practice investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD). The investigation found troubling evidence that PRPD frequently failed to police sex crimes and incidents of domestic violence.