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The Power and Control Wheel explains some of the common tactics used by abusers.

Offers practical suggestions regarding how reentry partners can become involved in assisting victims whose offenders are released, or preparing to be released, to the community.

This comprehensive set of curricula that can be used by probation and parole staff, treatment providers, victim advocates, law enforcement personnel, judges, prosecutors, and justice system educators to plan and develop their own live training events on a variety of specific issues related to sex offender management.

In fiscal year 2013, 58 domestic violence homicide incidents took the lives of 80 individuals in Illinois. This report summarizes data and lessons learned from these incidents where a domestic violence situation became fatal.

This discussion provides an opportunity to explore our role when victims ask us to talk to their partners or to help their partners change.

MOSAIC is a risk assessment tool that helps the assessor weigh the present situation in light of expert opinion and research, and instantly compare the present situation to past cases where the outcomes are known.

A Comprehensive Bibliography of Scholarly Research and Literature Relating to Juvenile Sex Offenders.

This Human Rights Watch report takes an in-depth look into the current sex offender laws in the US and offers a critique of such laws as well as recommendations and model programs. Issues related to juvenile offenders, residency restriction, offender registration, community notification, and internet registries are also discussed.

This page provides recent information and graphics on individuals who died in Maryland as a result of domestic violence.

This brief report on Strickland's study, the largest of its kind, surveyed 130 incarcerated females, 60 of which were sex offenders and 70 of which were nonsexual offenders - and examined factors such as childhood trauma, substance abuse, emotional neediness and personality disorders. While the majority of both groups reported being the victims of childhood maltreatment, the sex offenders were significantly more likely to experience pervasive, serious and more frequent emotional abuse, physical abuse and neglect.

This article offers specialized management techniques that probation officers can use to monitor batterers and intervene in domestic violence cases more effectively.