Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP) Content Topic Results

This toolkit from the Battered Women's Justice Project provides ideas, strategies, and techniques for addressing the need and challenges related to making survivors charged with crimes visible and central in a community’s response to domestic and sexual violence, with a particular emphasis on victims of battering charged with crimes.

Community-based advocates can play a critical role in helping survivors successfully complete supervision, particularly when working in partnership with a survivor’s probation or parole officer. This tipsheet highlights various practical strategies advocates can use when working with survivors on probation and parole.

This guide provides information on state and federal laws, policies, and practices for registration of a protection order in another jurisdiction.

This manual provides information and strategies to help community-based advocates provide effective and holistic support to incarcerated victims of battering.

This workshop from the Battered Women's Justice Project will help advocates adopt a faith-sensitive lens and best practices for supporting families who are guided by their faith.

This tip sheet is a tool that attorneys, advocates, and others can familiarize themselves with common types of disabilities, the unique barriers people with those disabilities may experience in the protection order office, and strategies for overcoming those barriers that attorneys and advocates can implement in their work.

What is really happening in the nation's family courts? This webinar discusses a national empirical study of custody courts' responses to domestic violence, child abuse, and parental alienation claims.

This webinar introduces multi-disciplinary participants to the work of the Sexual Violence Justice Institute and explore the complexities of sexual violence, especially for programs and communities that see a limited number of disclosures. 

In this webinar, presenters describe the development of the Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) Scales, which measure the degree to which programs engage in trauma-informed practices from the perspective of program participants.

Failure to utilize qualified interpreters increases risk to officer and community safety, jeopardizes criminal investigations and prosecutions, and can result in the loss of federal funding. This webinar addresses the widespread problem of police failure to access qualified interpreters and the problems associated with using unqualified interpreters.

Part 2 of the Battered Women's Justice Project's CCR Problem-Solving Series, this webinar explores the role and responsibilities of law enforcement in their initial response to domestic violence cases.

The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Protection Order File contains information on court orders which are issued to prevent acts of domestic violence against a person or to prevent a person from stalking, intimidating, or harassing another person.  This presentation thoroughly examines this NCIC file and how it can be used effectively by criminal justice agencies all across the U.S.