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At its 122nd Annual Conference and Exposition, the International Association of Chiefs of Police resolved that law enforcement agencies should implement comprehensive training efforts the crime of sexual assault, including its impact on victims, the recidivism of sex offenders, and the importance of DNA evidence to all types of sexual assault prosecutions.

This webinar discusses the Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, which was formed to study the underlying reasons why police were not submitting rape kits for testing, and to develop evidence-based testing plans.

This document summarizes concerns regarding how police respond to domestic violence and sexual assault, police bias and discrimination against survivors with marginalized identities, and outlines recommendations for improving law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.

This report studies domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts during a ten-year period.

While domestic violence occurs in every culture regardless of socioeconomic, educational, and religious background, we must address the fact that violence disproportionately affects marginalized groups. NRCDV's October 2015 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) emphasizes the need for using a racial justice framework in our work to end domestic violence.

This law review note explores the obstacles faced by female survivors of sex trafficking seeking asylum in the United States.

This is the fifth edition of the VPC’s American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. The study analyzes news reports of murder-suicides for the six-month period January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014. To the VPC’s knowledge, it is the largest and most comprehensive analysis available on murder-suicide in the United States.

Understanding the role social and digital media play in teens' romantic relationships is critical, given how deeply enmeshed these technology tools are in lives of American youth and how rapidly these platforms and devices change. This report examines the digital romantic practices of teens ages 13 to 17, from flirting to break-ups to digital abuse.

This page contains information about PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis): the types, the uses, and a location finder to help find PEP all over the USA.

These checklists are intended to help jurisdictions ensure that their criminal justice responses identify and address potential risks to victims, based on sound research on risk factors associated with IPV.

This report contains the survey results which show a strong disconnect between victims of domestic violence seeking help from law enforcement and the support those authorities are tasked with providing. The report highlights a number of factors that create major obstacles for victims attempting to cope with domestic violence – from distrust of the authorities to fear of punishment from their abusive partner.

This article describes a study of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), which is a partnership between law enforcement agencies and domestic violence service providers developed by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence.