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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.

Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'

This article provides basic information on domestic violence in same-sex relationships and outlines some of the differences between lesbian, trans, and bisexual survivors and the experiences of other survivors.

Describes a community organizing project that worked within an African American community to mobilize and train citizen leaders and business gatekeepers to safely and effectively intervene in domestic violence cases and raise neighborhood awareness.

This project recruited and trained bicultural-bilingual advocates from area ethnic communities to provide assistance to victims and initiate outreach and awareness activities in their communities. Assistance to 6 provide

This document suggests service providers to become familiar with the laws that affect immigrant women, to develop multi-lingual and multi-cultural staff and develop contacts with people from diverse cultures in their communities.

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 relationship between childhood maltreatment and subsequent delinquency, including sexual violence.

This document reports on the current status of standards for batterer intervention programs in each U.S. state, describes the common elements of standards, and explores the positive and negative aspects of standards. It includes a state-by-state chart.

This document highlights some of the legal and cultural trends surrounding custody and visitation decisions and identifies a strong need to consider more carefully the dynamics of domestic violence in these decisions.

This Trainer’s Manual encourages the integration of the sometimes separate fields of health, domestic violence, and culture in the development of health care policies, procedures, practice, and trainings for responding to domestic violence victims. The Trainer's Manual is a companion piece to "Improving the Health Care Responses to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers."

This document highlights the prevalence of violence against women with disabilities, examines abuse interventions for women with disabilities, and offers a critique of studies on abuse and disability. Includes recommendations for research and practice.

This document offers a critique of the Conflict Tactics Scale, a commonly-used measurement instrument designed to estimate the extent of violence against women, examining several limitations and describing the need for multiple measures of woman abuse.