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The Impact of Parental Kidnapping Laws and Practice on Domestic Violence Survivors
Author: National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
Description: This report demonstrates how parental kidnapping laws effect domestic violence survivors.
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Date Added: 04/18/2006
Sexual Assault in Indian Country: Confronting Sexual Violence
Author: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Description: This document highlights certain types of sexual assault evidence and presents it within the historical treatment of native populations, jurisdictional problems and prevalence of violence.
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Date Added: 12/14/2005
Understanding Women’s Experiences Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence: Implications for Community and Court-Related Service Providers
Author: Peter G. Jaffe and Claire V. Crooks
Description: This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document describes the intersection between woman abuse and parenting. The authors identify and discuss seven central themes that highlight the challenges of parenting in the context of woman abuse. Specific implications and recommendations for community and court service providers are also offered.
Date Added: 11/15/2005
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
An Advocate's Guide to Full Faith and Credit
Author: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: This guide was developed for advocates who assist victims of domestic violence with orders for protection. It provides a glossary of full faith and credit terminology, advocate tips, and information about enforcement of full faith and credit legislation.
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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
Building Bridges Between Domestic Violence Organizations and Child Protective Services
Author: Linda Spears
Description: This paper provides both background information and a
framework for collaboration with child protection agencies
that will support the work of domestic violence advocates as
they try to improve safety for women and their children.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases (Executive Summary)
Author: Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: This is an executive summary of the document "Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policies and Practice." The aim of this document is to offer a more comprehensive set of responses to eliminate or decrease the enormous risks that individual battered mothers, caseworkers, and judges must take on behalf of children.
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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
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
Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Adult Domestic Violence in Hennepin County
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. Sandra K. Beeman, Ph.D.M, University of Minnesota
Description: In this report, Drs. Edleson and Beeman and their research assistants detail information collected from a variety of sources during the first half of 1999. Information collection included detailed reporting by child protection screeners and investigators in the Hennepin County Department of Children and Family Services (HCDCFS), consulting with national experts in this area, reviewing published materials on prominent demonstration projects from around the United States and Canada, and holding a series of stakeholder meetings throughout Hennepin County.
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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
Six Crucial Issues in Supervised Visitation
Author: Karen Oehme and Sharon Maxwell, Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation, Florida State University
Description: This article describes six crucial issues that may decide how victims, their children, and their communities experience supervised visitation. These issues, based upon research and experience from supervised visitation providers nationally, are: how staff and volunteer training can enhance victim safety; how risk assessment tools can help staff identify dangers; how stalking can be reduced at supervised visitation programs; how liability issues can be addressed at programs; how court orders can increase protection for victims and children; and how staff can avoid unintended outcomes in program record keeping.
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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
The Military Response to Victims of Domestic Violence: Tools for Civilian Advocates
Author: Judith E. Beals
Description: This handbook is designed for civilian advocates working with military victims of domestic violence—both active duty victims and partners of active duty service members—to help advocates respond to the uniquely challenging needs of this population of survivors.
Date Added: 10/26/2005
Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Author: Jane Sadusky for BWJP
Description: Revised August 2001. Battered women's advocates and police departments in several jurisdictions have been successful in developing a more effective police response to domestic assault cases. 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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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Description: This tool kit has been designed to help groups and individuals
learn about and undertake work with men and boys for violence
prevention. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools.
Date Added: 10/26/2005
In the Best Interest of Women and Children: A Call for Collaboration Between Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Constituencies
Author: Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: This is a briefing paper prepared for a Wingspread Conference of a similar title. It discusses family violence, specifically against women and children, barriers to helping the victims, and the importance of collaboration to effect change.
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Date Added: 10/11/2005
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
Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. for VAWnet
Description: This document discusses children's problems associated with witnessing violence and the factors that influence the degree of those problems. The author also offers a critique of the research methods used to study child witnessing of violence and explores the policy implications of the data on this issue.
Date Added: 10/11/2005
Should Childhood Exposure to Adult Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment Under the Law?
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: Published as a chapter in Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention (2004), this article reviews the research on childhood exposure to domestic violence and emerging laws aimed at protecting these children. The author concludes with an argument against assuming that childhood exposure to violence is automatically a form of child maltreatment and suggests the need to modify child protection services and the expansion of primarily voluntary community-based responses to these children and their families.
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Date Added: 10/11/2005
