Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP) Content Topic Results
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September 2007
Confidentiality: An Advocate's Guide
Publisher(s):Confidentiality and privilege are key to keeping battered women safe and represent the cornerstones of all successful advocacy and shelter programs. This guide is intended to familiarize advocates with a variety of laws, policies, requirements, and best practices on the topic of confidentiality.
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April 2007
Female Officers as Victims of Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This article examines how the expectations and values of the female officer's profession and workplace culture influence her behavior and decisions regarding her abusive relationship.
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May 2005
Maze Map
Publisher(s):This PowerPoint presentation highlights the processes domestic violence victims may encounter when involved with child protection, civil/criminal justice systems, and military responses to domestic violence when it applies to active duty military personnel.
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June 2004
A Balanced Collaboration: How Vermont Built a Protocol for Law Enforcement Response to Children and Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This paper provides a starting point for other communities to explore their own response to children at domestic violence incidents, as well as an approach that can be used to examine other aspects of intervention.
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February 2004
When the Batterer is a Law Enforcement Officer: A Guide for Advocates
Publisher(s):This is a comprehensive resource for any advocate working with a survivor of a batterer who is in law enforcement, including information on particular safety considerations and advocacy strategies.
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October 2003
Community Policing and Domestic Violence: Five Promising Practices
Publisher(s):This document provides a discussion of how community policing principles might intersect with the core principles of domestic violence organizing: victim safety, offender accountability, and community change.
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August 2001
Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Publisher(s):This article highlights information advocates need in order to work collaboratively and effectively with police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The author discusses the changes police officers have made regarding when and how they arrest, investigate, write reports, and how they work with and support prosecutors and victim advocates.
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May 2001
Effective Interventions in Domestic Violence Cases: Context Is Everything
Publisher(s):In order to ensure that criminal justice system interventions are effective in holding offenders accountable and protecting victims from harm, the context in which each act of domestic violence occurs must be understood.
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What Criminal Justice Professionals Should Know About Campus Disciplinary Processes
Publisher(s): This webinar compares the way in which gender-based violence is addressed on campus with the criminal process, and explains how these processes can proceed concurrently. It also discusses the effects of compressed campus investigations and explains why college reporting procedures proceed as they do.
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Domestic Violence and Probation
Publisher(s):This article offers specialized management techniques that probation officers can use to monitor batterers and intervene in domestic violence cases more effectively.
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Assisting Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Prosecutor's Guide
Publisher(s):This document provides information to prosecutors on assisting immigrant victims of domestic violence. The document suggests prosecutors collaborate with community-based domestic violence and immigrant service organizations to provide services to immigrant women.
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Reducing Language Barriers to Combating Domestic Violence: The Requirements of Title VI
Publisher(s):This paper notes immigrant women's language barrier to accessing services for domestic violence. The paper provides guidance to police, prosecutors, courts, corrections centers, and shelter programs for determining their obligations toward immigrant women who experience domestic violence.