Criminal Justice Content Topic Results

This article examines the dynamics of police-perpetrated domestic violence and how it impacts the victim, the department, and the community. It explores how a police officer's training and professional life contribute to his arsenal of techniques and tactics of abuse.

The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview and discussion of emerging practices and lessons in communities across the country in the management of sex offenders under community supervision.

While there are many different methods of risk assessment, they tend to fall into two broad categories: clinical and actuarial (Milner & Campbell, 1995; Grubin, 1999). Clinical prediction requires the observation of an offender by a psychiatrists or a psychologist; clinicians assess risk based on their professional training, theoretical knowledge and experience with offenders.

This document is comprised of several articles on issues related to girls in the juvenile justice system including ways 'at-risk' girls continue to be misunderstood and underserved.

This bulletin is part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Development Series, which presents findings from the Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency. This bulletin discusses findings that indicate the composition of families is one aspect of family life that is consistently associated with delinquency.

This article discusses a process that allows victims of sexual violence to file anonymous or confidential reports (being labeled as blind reports).

This brief is intended to inform citizens, state and local leaders, and criminal justice professionals about the policy issues related to sex offender registration, and to describe current sex offender registration practices around the country.

The book offers guidelines and checklists to use in implementing a proactive and comprehensive response to date rape crimes on college campuses.

This brochure describes the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) and its ability to help determine the degree to which an individual poses a domestic violence threat to his/her partner, children, another family member, or another person involved.

This document describes the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review model and the rationale behind it.

These tools comprise a coherent actuarial system to assesses how likely a man is to assault his partner again, and how his risk compares with that of other abusers.

This online toolkit provides training materials and other resources to educate officers about the dynamics and impact of officer-involved domestic violence and human trafficking.