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An Online Resource Library on Gender-Based Violence.

Community Tools for Improving the Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Improving the law enforcement response to domestic violence and sexual assault is a community effort. This section consists of resources focused on how to address the issues of identifying and preventing gender bias in police responses as a community, including resources for advocates, policymakers, courts, and law enforcement leaders.

Bridging the Divide between Police and Community, Vera Institute of Justice, Video, October 2017.

Summary: This video explains the mission of the Vera Institute of Justice’s Peace Initiative, a program designed to help police agencies work collaboratively with the communities they serve, to enhance or repair their relationship, and cultivate trust among all stakeholders.

The Science and Practice of Community-Informed Risk Assessment, Battered Women’s Justice Project, February 2018.

Summary: This webinar explains the development of a community informed risk assessment tool for use by law enforcement advocates in cases of intimate partner violence.  The Arizona Supreme Court recently approved a rule change requiring use of the Arizona Intimate Partner Risk Assessment Instrument System (APRAIS) and submission of results of the assessment for judicial review at initial appearances. Dr. Websdale reviewed the scientific evidence underpinning the tool and the process of engaging community stakeholders to develop the tool for statewide implementation. Mr. Giangobbe discussed practical issues of training, implementation, victim safety and autonomy and stakeholder buy in.

The Most Important Features for an Effective Sexual Assault Response Team

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) provide an organized and community-based response to sexual assault, bringing together a collection of stakeholders including rape victim advocates, medical/forensic examiners, law enforcement, and prosecutors. To understand how an effective SART works, NIJ-funded researchers studied the structure and operations of SARTS across the United States. Findings are featured in this article.

You Have Options

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.

Building Evidence Toolkit

This Toolkit, grounded in the realities of community-based organizations working from a culturally-specific framework, was designed to help enhance programs’ evidence-building capacity.

A Best Practice Assessment of Your Civil Protection Order System

This webinar provides a detailed description of engaging in a best practice assessment of the civil protection order system. Considerations for jurisdictions interested in conducting assessments, as well as the technical assistance provided by the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit (NCPOFFC) are discussed.

Prevent Domestic Violence Gun Violence Resource Library

This library compiles resources for promoting safer families and safer communities. Included are webinars, legal and policy analyses, promising practices and policies, research, and more helpful tools for law enforcement officers and community members.

VAWnet Special Collection: Intimate Partner Homicide Prevention

Summary: This collection provides: national and statewide homicide statistics that help illustrate the scope of the problem; an overview of tools and strategies for assessing danger or the risk of lethality in domestic violence cases; recommendations and approaches for utilizing the fatality review process to prevent intimate partner homicide; materials describing various systems’ responses to domestic violence and efforts to prevent homicide; resources to assist advocates in helping to frame the issue through media response and community mobilization; resources addressing the grief and trauma experienced by loved ones of those whose lives are lost to domestic violence.  This special collection also includes a section on first responders.

Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violence Response

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. 

Using the National Crime Information Center to spread the word about Protection Orders

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.

Training Law Enforcement Agencies on U Visa Certifications

Recorded by the Immigration Advocates Network (IAN) and co-sponsored by ASISTA, this webinar features co-directors Gail Pendleton and Sonia Parras discussing best practices and ways to reach out to, train, and work with law enforcement agencies on U visa certifications.

Domestic Violence

This domestic violence prevention and response guide provides an overview of considerations and strategies that police officers can utilize to address domestic violence through problem-solving and police-community partnerships.

Restorative Policing: Concepts, Theory, and Practice

This book provides an overview of restorative policing and policing reform concepts and theory while presenting a transformative vision of restorative policing and outlining a framework for implementing restorative policing in practice.

Transforming the System: Criminal Justice Policy Solutions

This document highlights and explains pragmatic policy solutions for comprehensive criminal justice reform from an inclusive and intersectional perspective that accounts for the unique ways that social identities such as race, gender, gender identity, sexual expression, and health status affect criminal justice administration.

Police Reform, Restorative Justice, and Restorative Policing

This article provides an overview of restorative justice and discusses the role of restorative policing in community policing and police reform. The authors conclude with a discussion of effective strategies for the implementation of restorative policing.
Community-Based Alternative Approaches to Responding to Harm

Healing Together: Shifting Approaches to End Intimate Partner Violence

This resource centers the experiences of women of color and people harmed by their partners, connecting violence against women to broader efforts advancing racial justice and prompting a paradigm shift in the field of intimate partner violence by moving beyond traditional strategies and responses that rely on punishment and criminalization to highlight restorative responses grounded in community, healing, and transformative justice to improve safety for survivors.

A National Portrait of Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Pathways to Safety, Accountability, Healing, and Well-Being

This report provides an overview of findings from case studies of programs addressing intimate partner violence and sexual assault through restorative and transformative approaches. These programs generally prioritized promoting safety and empowerment, ending violence, changing social norms. The report concludes with information on guiding principles and practice recommendations for the field.

Alternative U.S. Responses to Intimate Partner Violence

This article discusses restorative and transformative justice models for intimate partner violence as alternatives to moderate the harms of state-based and crime-centric responses that reinforce systems of oppression and structural inequality.

Can Restorative Practices Address Intimate Partner Violence?

This paper from the Center for Court Innovation discusses if and how restorative practices can safely and effectively address intimate partner violence. It also outlines the rationale for exploring alternative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence and provides guidelines that practitioners can use to develop relevant policies and principles for these interventions.

Building Accountable Communities

This YouTube playlist by Barnard Center for Research on Women includes a series of four short videos featuring anti-violence activists in discussions on community accountability and transformative justice.