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Council of the European Convention provides definitions and information about prevention and protection measures, victims rights, investigation and prosecution, and other international instruments.

This document is a trainer’s module on skills development. Sections included in this module are Understanding Crisis, The Helping Relationship, Effective Communication, Problem Solving, Crisis Intervention, Safety Planning, and Goal Planning.

This manual emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary Elder Abuse Fatality Review Team (EA-FRT), discusses various issues and challenges that EA-FRT may face, and presents suggestions for addressing these challenges.

This document, in Q&A format, provides basic information on hiring discrimination, workplace safety, health care, language rights, wages and hours, joining a labor union and law enforcement actions.

This paper provides a critical overview of some of the current research that has been done to better understand the contexts, dynamics and impact of relationship violence within LGBTQ communities and also identifies several barriers that still exist within support services when responding to this form of violence. The paper concludes by offering recommendations and considerations for the criminal justice and social service community and provides examples of innovative responses and programs that have been developed within LGBTQ communities that might serve as models.

This paper discusses officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV), examining why it seems particularly resistant to reduction and recommending ways in which policies can more effectively target it.

To achieve this purpose, a systematic review of available information on female sexual offenders was conducted. There were two goals to this study: 1) to provide an estimate of the proportion of sexual offenders who are women; and 2) to establish the known sexual recidivism rates among female sexual offenders.

Provides examples of year-round, local public awareness programming that can raise awareness with limited resources. The article includes a month-by-month listing of ideas for local programs to adapt for implementation in their own community.

This document notes the connection between achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and preventing violence against women, and presents recommendations for integrating initiatives to address VAW into MDG strategies.

(providing that for public housing a PHA should consider whether to adopt a local preference for admission of families that include victims of domestic violence)

This handbook highlights the importance of culture and provides guidance to develop cultural competency at the individual and organizational levels.

The article concludes with recommendations for research, training, and legislation that may increase safe outcomes for battered mothers and their children.