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It will address three areas of interest: why the public's perspective is important; how leadership in different states has benefited from studies of public opinion about crime and criminal justice issues; and why it is essential that the criminal justice system view the public as a partner rather than an adversary or simply a group of consumers.

This study examines the importance of social and demographic characteristics, attitudes towards condom effectiveness against HIV, fertility intentions and power dynamics as predictors of condom use.

The purpose of this brief is to provide information, ideas, and resources that will encourage agencies managing sex offenders in the community to consider the benefits and feasibility of involving victim advocates and other victim service providers in their work.

The booklet discusses CAC's model in developing a proven response to child abuse by creating a multidisciplinary team approach that coordinates the key services involved in the investigation, prosecution, and treatment&of child abuse cases. It concludes by encouraging tribal communities in the developmental stages to consider the CAC's model as an appropriate response to child abuse.

This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities.

This curriculum is designed to enhance public policy skill and knowledge of domestic violence advocates. It provides both a theoretical approach to systemic advocacy and basic hands-on-tools to help advocates better prepare for their work with systems.

This is Issue Brief #8 in a series based on a growing body of research that suggests that successful policies for families must take into account the needs of children when addressing the needs of parents and the needs of parents when addressing the needs of children.

This is a skill-building curriculum in negotiation, collaborative mindset, strategic thinking, and meeting facilitation. It is the third of three interrelated training curricula developed for staff of grassroots domestic violence organizations.

This document is a resource for advocates seeking to strengthen efforts to help battered women with abused and neglected children.

This manual provides legal information and steps to build prevention and response strategies to housing related hate activities.

Excerpt: "In 1995, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) began working in partnership to manage the 'Promoting Women in Development' (PROWID) grants program, funded by the Office of Women in Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)... This paper is one of several analytical documents synthesizing the findings across PROWID projects and their implications within the various theme areas."

This paper explains the possible types and etiologies for traumatic injuries, neurochemical changes and structural alterations that may occur in the brain as a result of intimate violence, most of which are not being diagnosed.