Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This report integrates analysis, insight, and expertise from advocates and survivors that can serve as a primer for program design for adult, young adult, and youth victims of trafficking; forge collaborations; expand the field’s knowledge of trauma connected to early victimization; and inform safety, healing, empowerment, and justice.

These guidelines focus on court interpretation for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or trafficking with limited English proficiency. It is intended to inform how advocacy, interpretation, and language access can be integrated.

These videos offer a discussion of the relationship between abuse and caregiver stress, including a case example.

This targeted recommendation outlines the rationale for why domestic violence agencies should collect sexual orientation and gender identity data on the survivors they serve. It outlines recommendations for doing so accurately and responsively for DV agencies, providers, and researchers.

This article from the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life provides an overview of abuse in later life and abuse dynamics, in addition to providing practical strategies for professionals working with older survivors of abuse.

This report summarizes a study of over 3600 domestic violence survivors that examined their experience of mandatory reporting and explored how mandatory reporting affected their help-seeking strategies and overall wellbeing.

This video provides a discussion of the unique issues and challenges for older victims abused by intimate partners.

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 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 paper from the Center for Court Innovation discusses if and how restorative practices can safely and effectively address intimate partner violence. It also outlines the rationale for exploring alternative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence and provides guidelines that practitioners can use to develop relevant policies and principles for these interventions.

This report highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights and in gender equality.

This piece addresses common confidentiality questions about several U.S. federal laws that may impact survivors. It highlights key confidentiality and privacy provisions in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act and the 2010 reauthorization of the Family Violent Prevention Services Act.