Domestic violence
Provider Perceptions and Domestic Violence (DV) Survivor Experiences of Traumatic and Anoxic-Hypoxic Brain injury: Implications for DV Advocacy Service Provision.
Just Science Podcast: Just COVID-19: The Impact to Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault
Strengthening the Response to Missing, Murdered Native Americans
In my work with the Department of Justice, I have heard far too many tragic stories of heartache and loss. That is why I feel privileged to serve as Attorney General Barr’s designee as co-chair of an important interagency effort: the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives, or Operation Lady Justice. Established by President Trump’s Executive Order 13898, Attorney...
SMART Office Welcomes New Director
In March, the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking welcomed a new Director, Kendel Ehrlich. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. In that position, Kendel specialized in external communications combatting the opioid crisis with particular emphasis on ONDCP's High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas and Drug-Free Communities programs.
Prior to joining the...
Police Interactions With Victims of Violence
Validation and Adaptation of the Danger Assessment-5 A Brief Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment
IPV and the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
Implications for Practice Risks to Youth in Boomtowns
Financial Support for Victims of Crime: A Quick Guide for Corrections and Community Supervision Officers
News Releases 2017
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12/07/2017
42 Percent of violent victimizations reported to police in 2016
12/05/2017
Bureau of Justice Statistics releases Jails in Indian Country, 2016
11/30/2017
11/24/2017
National Institute of Justice examines use of 3D imaging in crime-solving
11/21/2017
A Judicial Checklist for Children and Youth Exposed to Violence
Our Aging Population: Promoting Empowerment, Preventing Victimization, and Implementing Coordinated Interventions: A Report of Proceedings
Reasonable Efforts in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases that Involve Domestic Violence
Finding the Missing in Indian Country
It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...
Children Exposed to Violence
A study of a national sample of American children found that over the past year 60 percent were exposed to violence, crime, or abuse in their homes, schools, and communities. Almost 40 percent of American children were direct victims of 2 or more violent acts, and 1 in 10 were victims of violence 5 or more times. Children are more likely to be exposed to...
Law Enforcement Resources
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