A Judge's Bench Card Regarding Full Faith and Credit
Author: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Description: A publication designed to help judges understand the necessary steps to supporting implementation of the Full Faith and Credit Provision of the Violence Against Women Act.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Assessing Justice System Response To Violence Against Women: A Tool for Law Enforcement, Prosecution, and Courts
Author: STOP-TA Project in Washington DC
Description: This document contains an assessment tool for jurisdictions to use in developing effective responses by law enforcement, prosecution, and the courts.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Full Faith and Credit Implementation: Challenges and Solutions
Author: Barbara Hart
Description: This chapter identifies some of the stumbling blocks to implementation of full faith and credit, including xenophobia, reluctance to change, and procedure-driven traditions of law enforcement. It offers an outline for a problem-solving approach.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Increasing Your Safety: Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders
Author: National Center on Full Faith and Credit
Description: This guide explains Full Faith and Credit law and offers
ideas about where to get help if you have problems with
enforcement of a protection order.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative
Author: Vera Institute of Justice
Description: Provides an overview of the Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative and a summary of each of its three demonstration sites.
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Date Added: 10/11/2005
Model Tribal Domestic Violence Full Faith and Credit Ordinance
Author: Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: A sample document of a tribal domestic violence full faith and credit ordinance.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Progress Report on Full Faith and Credit Enabling Legislation: 2000
Author: Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: Although the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) explicitly directs states, union territories, and Indian tribes to enforce protection orders issued by sister states, territories, and tribes, it does not prescribe any specific enforcement procedures but instructs them to establish their own. This chapter provides a comprehensive view of the impact of the
provision upon various jurisdictions.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence: A Law Enforcement Officer's Guide to Enforcing Orders of Protection
Description: This document reviews the full faith and credit component
of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. It provides
crucial information on orders of protection for law
enforcement officers who play a significant role in
stopping domestic violence.
This project was supported by a Cooperative Agreement
awarded by the Violence Against Women Grants Office, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Reviewing Domestic Violence Fatalities: Summarizing National Developments
Author: Neil Websdale, Ph.D., Maureen Sheeran, Policy Analyst, and Byron Johnson, Ph.D.
Description: This document brings together information on domestic violence fatality reviews from across the country. It defines domestic violence, provides a state-by-state matrix of domestic violence death review initiatives, introduces teams' philosophies and the purposes and goals of teams, addresses team membership, explores death review team protocols, confronts concerns regarding confidentiality, liability, and immunity, offers a selection of investigative methods already used by teams as they conduct death reviews, and talks about the issue of effecting change through the process of reviewing domestic fatalities.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Sample Final Protection Order
Author: Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: This sample order, which is based on Pennsylvania law, is a guide to assist in the drafting of Final Protection Orders in different jurisdictions. The relief available will depend on the laws of each particular state or jurisdiction.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Sample Notice to Defendant Filing of Protective Order
Author: Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: A sample notice to a defendant filing a protective order.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Sample Universal Certification Form for Restraining Orders
Author: Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: A universally recognized and utilized certification form for civil protection/restraining orders will both normalize and expedite full faith and credit of these orders in non-issuing states, pursuant to the provisions of the VAWA. This is a sample order with attached rationale for the benefits of a universally recognized form.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Specialized Criminal Domestic Violence Courts
Author: Julie A. Helling
Description: National Center for State Courts surveyed courts by mail in
1998 and received approximately 200 responses indicating
that the court had some type of specialized procedures for
domestic violence cases. This article provides a basic
overview of issues involved in the specialization of
criminal domestic courts.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
The Full Faith and Credit Project
Description: An overview of the Full Faith and Credit Project, including their history, mission, and plans for the future. Updated June 2000.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
