Criminal Justice Content Topic Results

This publication offers strategies for prosecuting child sexual abuse by a family member. Some of the recommendations include developing an understanding of grooming techniques and using forensic interviewing.

This guide provides a framework for the development of a protocol by law enforcement agencies to more effectively work with and serve survivors of homicide victims.

This guide was created to promote an understanding of the complexities of sexual offense and misconduct cases involving officers and to encourage the proactive adoption of policy and prevention efforts within law enforcement agencies.

This report to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives outlines needed structural changes to the process of investigating and carrying out legal proceedings for sexual assault cases.

This NIJ webpage highlights research findings on murder-suicide in the family.

This guide for law enforcement provides guidance on the enforcement of protection orders pursuant to the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act, which requires law enforcement officers to enforce valid orders across the boundaries of states, tribes, and territories.

This website provides information about domestic violence and legal rights of immigrant women married to a US citizen. It suggests that immigrant women call the police if they or their children are in danger. The website also includes information about services available to immigrant survivors. The second part of this website gives information about immigration options for survivors.

This document presents a project report and recommendations from the Florida’s statewide fatality review team.

This protocol from the Sexual Assault Interagency Council provides direction for professionals, counselors, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other individuals in Denver who interact with victims of sexual assault, and a framework for the evaluation of their efforts.

This brief examines urban and rural differences in the community context of partner violence and the effectiveness of protective orders. The study uses data from an urban area and a rural area in Central Appalachia in Kentucky.

This recorded webinar describes how legal services lawyers and social workers work together in elder abuse cases.

This sixth and final biennial report draws on the lessons learned by the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) after more than a decade of analysis and community conversation, and it sets out eleven goals for change.