Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results
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August 2001
Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Publisher(s):This article highlights information advocates need in order to work collaboratively and effectively with police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The author discusses the changes police officers have made regarding when and how they arrest, investigate, write reports, and how they work with and support prosecutors and victim advocates.
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- General Material
August 2001
Domestic Violence Organizations Online: Risks, Ethical Dilemmas, and Liability Issues
This paper outlines risk and liability issues related to Internet use by domestic violence organizations, suggests risk-management guidelines to protect them from liability, and includes recommendations to further understanding re: online services.
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- General Material
July 2001
The Politics of the Disability Rights Movement
This article offers a brief history of the disability rights movement and discusses the need for a counter-hegemonic politics of disability liberation.
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- General Material
July 2001
Privacy, Technology and Criminal Justice Information: Public Attitudes towards Uses of Criminal History Information
Publisher(s):Summarizes findings on public attitudes toward the availability and use of individuals' criminal history records outside of the criminal justice system.
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- General Material
June 2001
Welfare on WorkFirst: Serving Victims on Public Assistance in Washington State
Publisher(s):These findings and recommendations are based on eleven months of experience working in the field with partners in 19 pilot projects.
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- General Material
May 2001
Recidivism of Sex Offenders
Publisher(s):This resource summarizes research on the re-offense rates of sex offenders and explores issues in defining recidivism. It focuses primarily on adult male offenders, describing factors and conditions that appear to be associated with reduced sexual offending.
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- General Material
May 2001
Effective Interventions in Domestic Violence Cases: Context Is Everything
Publisher(s):In order to ensure that criminal justice system interventions are effective in holding offenders accountable and protecting victims from harm, the context in which each act of domestic violence occurs must be understood.
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- General Material
April 2001
Community Notification and Education
Publisher(s):This policy and practice brief examines the differences in state laws regarding community notification and explores some innovative approaches to notification and education in place across the United States.
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- General Material
April 2001
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs: Improving the Community Response to Sexual Assault Victims
Publisher(s):This Bulletin provides an anecdotal look at how U.S. SANE programs are impacting sexual assault victims, service practice, and communities.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 2001
Collaboration a Key Factor in Fostering Economic Opportunity
Publisher(s):Features articles on an Economic Action Program developed in Missouri, and, how in Pennsylvania and Alabama, some strategic collaboration with state welfare departments creates options for battered women.
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- General Material
March 2001
Survivors of intimate violence seek help online: Implications of responding to increasing requests
Publisher(s):This paper focuses on the nature of help-seeking emails and recommends that a strategic plan be developed to address safety, confidentiality and liability concerns of online advocacy. It explores some of the implications around responding to requests from survivors online.
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- General Material
March 2001
Emergency Department Screening for Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This article reports on how emergency department screening was conducted in two programs and what steps can be taken to overcome some of the barriers to screening in the health care setting.