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

This webinar discusses the findings of medical research from Louisville, Kentucky on strangulation in the context of domestic violence. Faculty consider “best practices” in domestic violence strangulation cases for law enforcement, expert witnesses, prosecutors and judges.

This webinar focuses on strategies for support and advocacy when working with LGBTQ survivors, with a particular emphasis on the needs and experiences of LGBTQ service members and veterans.

Victims of intimate partner violence who are military service members, veterans, or partners of service members or veterans, often have specific legal issues related to the military. Attorneys who are unconnected to the military must understand those issues or run the risk not only of inadequate representation, but also of increasing danger to their clients. While resources on legal representation of service members and/or veterans exist, this handbook specifically addresses additional considerations for attorneys when representing military-related victims/survivors:

This resource outlines the Forensic Experiential Trauma Interview (FETI), an interviewing method that uses information about the parts of the brain that experience trauma. 

Leigh Goodmark’s article, "Transgender People, Intimate Partner Abuse, and the Legal System," is the first law review article to concentrate specifically on intimate partner abuse and the transgender community. In this webinar, Leigh Goodmark presents this research, and Terra Slavin and michael munson comment on critical analysis in the article and reflect its utility for practitioners and victims.

This chart is a compilation of the strangulation laws in the United States.

This handbook is intended to provide information to attorneys representing survivors and victims of intimate partner violence who are connected with the military, which includes service members, veterans, or partners of abusive service members or veterans.

In this webinar, detective Carrie Hull and Susan Moen share how the “You Have Options” program is reducing barriers to reporting sexual assault. “You Have Options” is the result of over two years working in collaboration with victims, victim advocates, and other community partners to identify ways law enforcement can increase sexual assault reporting to ultimately have a better chance at holding offenders accountable.

This course, designed for advocates (military and civilian) who provide services to military-related families experiencing intimate partner violence, pulls together information about military and combat-related issues as they intersect with intimate partner violence. The self-paced course includes eight modules with mini-lectures, case studies, video clips, practice scenarios, and opportunities for self-assessment to test mastery of course content. Modules include:

In this webinar, presenter Chai Jindasurat explains the nuances of intervening with survivors/victims and perpetrators of LGBTQ domestic violence, including how oppression and discrimination create barriers to accessing system-based responses for LGBTQ survivors and strategies to meet the specific needs of LGBTQ survivors in your local community.

Case unfounding is clearance method that includes, but is not limited to, cases that are determined to be false reports. Unfortunately, in many sexual assault cases, unfounding may also be used improperly to clear cases that are believed or assumed to be false, rather than factually proven to be false.

This guide was developed as a resource for legal professionals and advocates working with Muslims, and for Muslim leaders and community members.