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This newsletter is designed to provide prosecutors and other allied professionals with up-to-date information on legal strategies, best practices and research on the fight against domestic and sexual violence.
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Confronting Violence Against Women - A Community Action Approach
This manual is designed to provide criminal justice professionals and community activists a hands-on, step-by-step guide to forming a coordinating council and to describe several innovative councils that are successfully countering violence against women in their communities.
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Stalking - Prosecutors Convict and Restrict
This monograph is designed to help criminal justice practitioners who seek to implement a stalking program. The study conducted in this monograph:
- Identifies anti-stalking prosecution programs that significantly involve or are led by local prosecutors;
- Documents these programs by conducting site visits and in-depth interviews with key criminal justice personnel; and
- Produces a report discussing the findings from the telephone interviews and case studies
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Practitioners' Manual - The Prosecution of Rohypnol and GHB Related Sexual Assaults
The American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), with the support of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, has produced a manual for prosecutors and law enforcement officers on the investigation and prosecution of Rohypnol and Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) related sexual assaults.
- The manual is designed to serve as a quick reference for prosecutors and law enforcement. Information about Rohypnol and GHB, investigation and prosecution strategies, and a resource directory are included in the manual.
- The manual was developed with the assistance of a panel of experts that included prosecutors, police officers, toxicologists, and victim advocates. The International Association of Chiefs of Police endorsed the manual.
The manual is in PDF file format -- free.
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Domestic Violence - Prosecutors Take the Lead
This monograph is designed to inform prosecutors, advocates, and criminal justice personnel of the issues domestic violence raises by:
- Apprising prosecutors and advocates of relevant civil and criminal laws, and legislative and procedural trends;
- Discussing the merits and drawbacks of written policy statements;
- Explaining why, and in what areas, prosecutors, judges, police, and healthcare providers need training;
- Exploring effective alliances between agencies;
- Discussing advantages and disadvantages of both family and domestic violence courts; and
- Examining the intersections of civil protective order law and criminal law, and of family law and criminal law.
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