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State Laws on Incest, Rape, Penetration, Violent Predators, Spousal Rape, Rape Shields, Violence
against Women

 

State-by-State Listing Privacy Rights of Victims of Violence Against Women

Privacy Rights of Victims of Violence Against Women

State-by-State Listing of Statutes of Limitations for Sexual Assault Statutes

State Rape Statutes (Summary Chart)

State Definitions of Penetrations for Sex Crimes (Summary Chart)

Rape Shield Statutes (Summary Chart)

Rape Shield Statutes (Text)

Sexually Violent Predator Statutes

State Criminal Incest Statutes (Summary Chart)

State Criminal Incest Statutes (Text)

State Spousal Rape Statutes (Summary Chart)

 

IMPORTANT OTHER SITES

 

Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/

MN Center Against Violence and Abuse - MINCAVA
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/

National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women - VAWNET
http://www.vawnet.org/

Violence Against Women Online Resources
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/

Toolkit to End Violence Against Women
http://toolkit.ncjrs.org/

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
http://www.ncdsv.org/

National Center for Victims of Crime: Violence Against Women
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbID=DB_ViolenceAgainstWomen155

National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) – Violence Against Women
http://www.now.org/issues/violence/index.html

NC Conference of District Attorneys, Violence Against Women Resource
Prosecutor:
http://www.ncdistrictattorney.org/vaw/index.htm

Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/default.htm

Faith Trust Institute (formerly the Center for Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence)
http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/

National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
http://www.dvalianza.org/

Assessing Justice System Response to Violence Against Women: A Tool for Law Enforcement, Prosecution and Courts to Use in Developing Effective Responses
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/promise/pplaw/pplaw.html

Vicarious Trauma Resource: Gift From Within
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - Federal Laws And Regulations,

Federal Legislation and Regulations (OVW)
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/regulations.htm

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - Grant Information

Office on Violence Against Women – Grant Information
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/ovwgrantprograms.htm

Office for Victims of Crime
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/welcome.html

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/funding/funding.html

National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding.htm

Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program (Center for Disease Control)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/RPE.htm

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – Immigration

ASISTA (Advanced Special Immigrant Survivors Technical Assistance) is an exciting new project with the goal of providing technical assistance on complex questions arising in immigration cases for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors.
more info here

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – International Issues

Department of State – Office of International Women’s Issues
http://www.state.gov/g/wi/

Department of State – Links to US Embassies and Consulates
http://usembassy.state.gov/

United Nation’s “Women Watch: The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women”
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – Law Enforcement Links

Assessing Justice System Response to Violence Against Women: A Tool for Law Enforcement, Prosecution and Courts to Use in Developing Effective Responses
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/promise/pplaw/pplaw.html

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)
http://www.fletc.gov/

IACP – Violence Against Women Project
http://www.theiacp.org/research/RCDViolenceAgainstWomen.html

National Sheriffs Association
http://www.sheriffs.org/prog-dv.shtml

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - Prevention

National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center
http://www.musc.edu/vawprevention/

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – Risk Factors

Violence Against Women: Identifying Risk Factors (National Institute of Justice, 2004)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/197019.pdf

 

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - Statistics

Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women (National Institute of Justice, 1993 – 2004)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/vawprog/vaw_portfolio.pdf

Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States (Center for Disease Control, 2003)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/ipv.htm

Extent, Nature and Consequences of Violence Against Women (National Institute of Justice / Center for Disease Control, 2000)
http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf

Intimate Partner Violence Fact Sheet (Centers for Disease Prevention and Control)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm

Domestic and Sexual Violence Data Collection: A Report to Congress Under the Violence Against Women Act (National Institute of Justice / Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/dvsal.htm

Stalking and Domestic Violence: The Third Annual Report to Congress Under the Violence Against Women Act, 1998)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/grants/stalk98/stalk98.pdf

Violence Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/vrithed.htm

Sex Difference in violent Victimization (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/sdvv.htm

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Data Collection Systems in the States (2002)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/192275.pdf

Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice and Policy (National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2004)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/199701.pdf

 

 

RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS

National Domestic Violence Hotline
http://www.ndvh.org/

National Center for Victims of Crime
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/Main.aspx

State Domestic Violence Coalitions
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/statedomestic.htm

Sexual Assault Hotlines and State Sexual Assault Coalitions
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/statesexual.htm

Language Line Services – 24 - 7 Interpretation Service
http://www.languageline.com/

ADT Aware Program: Protection for Abused Women (free security resource)
http://www.adt.com/adt/about_adt/adt_in_our_communities/aware/

Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance (2000)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/agg2000/welcome.html

Crime Victims’ Rights in America: An Historical Overview
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/1999/histr.htm

Victim and Witness Intimidation: New Developments and Emerging Responses (National Institute of Justice, 1995)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/witintim.pdf

When Victims Have a Right to Know: Automatic Notification with Vine (Vera Institute of Justice, 1999)
http://www.vera.org/publication_pdf/vine2.pdf

Crime Victim Compensation Directory (Office for Victims of Crime)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/progdir.htm

Advocating for Women in the Criminal Justice System
http://www.justicewomen.com/handbook/index.html

Are you Being Stalked? Tips for Protection
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs14-stk.htm

Employment and Housing Resources
http://www.legalmomentum.org/legalmomentum/programs/ehrsa/

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - General

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
http://www.ncadv.org/

ABA Commission on Domestic Violence
http://www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV)
http://www.pcadv.org/

Battered Women’s Justice Project
http://www.bwjp.org/

Family Violence Prevention Fund
http://endabuse.org/

Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
http://www.ncjfcj.org/dept/fvd/

Institute for Law and Justice
http://www.ilj.org/research.htm

Love is Not Abuse (Liz Claiborne Inc.)
http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/

National Center for the State Courts – The Center for Family Violence and the Courts
http://www.ncsconline.org/famviol/index.html

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
http://www.ncdsv.org/

National Institute of Justice – NIJ – Violence Against Women and Family Violence
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/vawprog/links.html

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
http://www.nrcdv.org/

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
http://www.dvinstitute.org/

NYC Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Project
http://www.avp.org/

Criminalization of Domestic Violence: Promises and Limits (National Institute of Justice, 1996)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/crimdom.pdf

Cycle of Violence Revisited (National Institute of Justice, 1996)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/cyclepre.pdf

Herstory of Domestic Violence: A Timeline of the Battered Women’s Movement
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents//herstory//herstory.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Battered Immigrant Women

Critique of the Battered Woman Syndrome Model http://www.vawnet.org/DomesticViolence/Research/VAWnetDocs/AR_bws.php

Legal Momentum – Advancing Women’s Rights
http://www.legalmomentum.org/

National Immigration Project
http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/

National Network on Behalf of Battered Immigrant Women
http://endabuse.org/programs/

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Battered Woman’s Syndrome

Validity and Use of Evidence Concerning Battering and its Effects in Criminal Trials (National Institute of Justice, 1996)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/batter.pdf

Advocating for Domestic Violence Victims Who Have Been Arrested
http://www.justicewomen.com/tips_dv_victims.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -Barriers to Leaving Abusive Partners

50 Reasons Women Don’t Leave Abusive Partners
http://www.ncdsv.org/images/50_Reasons_Women_Dont_Leave.pdf

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Batterer Intervention Programs

Batterer Intervention Programs: Where Do We Go From Here? (National Institute of Justice, 2003)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/195079.pdf

Batterer Programs: What Criminal Justice Agencies Need to Know (National Institute of Justice, 1998)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171683.pdf

Domestic Violence and Probation
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/bwjp/probationv/probationv.html

Batterer Intervention: Program Approaches and Criminal Justice Strategies (National Institute of Justice, 1998)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/168638.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Coordinated Community Response

Advocacy in a Coordinated Community Response: An Evaluation of Three Programs (VAWOR, 2000)
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/bwjp/communityv/communityv.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Domestic Violence and Children

The Link Research Project (MINCAVA)
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/link/

Children’s Exposure (MINCAVA)
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/library/dv/#748

US HHS: Administration for Children and Families
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/

Minnesota Rural Project for Women and Child Safety
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/rural/

Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Recommendations to Improve the Criminal Justice Response to Child Victims and Witnesses (Office for Victims of Crime, 1999)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/factshts/pdftxt/monograph.pdf

Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Center
http://www.dvirc.org.au/

The Relationship between Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
http://www.childabuse.com/fs20.htm

Effects of Domestic Violence (The American Academy of Experts on Traumatic Stress)
http://www.aaets.org/arts/art8.htm

Problems Associated with Children’s Witnessing of Domestic Violence
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/vawnet/witness/witness.html

In the Best Interest of Women and Children: A Call for Collaboration Between Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Constituencies
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/wingsp/wingsp.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Firearms

ATF Benchcard: Misdemeanor Crimes of Domestic Violence and Federal Firearms Prohibitions
http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/i33103.pdf

ATF Benchcard: Addressing Protection Orders and Federal Firearms Prohibitions
http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/i33102.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Intimate Partner Homicide

Trends in the US: Intimate Homicide (Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS])
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.htm

Rural and Urban Trends in Family and Intimate Partner Homicide: 1980-1999
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208344.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Intervention and Prevention

National Evaluation of the Legal Assistance for Victims Program, Final Report, Part 1
(Institute for Law and Justice, 2005)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208612.pdf

Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy
(National Institute of Justice, 2004)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/199701.pdf

Legal Interventions in Family Violence: Research Findings and Policy Implications (National Institute of Justice / American Bar Association, 1998)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171666.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Lethality and Danger Assessments

Danger Assessment Tool
http://www.son.jhmi.edu/research/CNR/Homicide/DANGER.htm

Lethality Assessments as Integral Parts of Providing Full Faith and Credit Guarantees
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/ffc/chapter9/chapter9.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Medical Issues

Documenting Domestic Violence: How Health Care Providers Can Help Victims (National Institute of Justice, 2001)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/188564.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Military

Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence
http://www.dtic.mil/domesticviolence/

Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence: Compilation of Reports, 2001 - 2003
http://www.dtic.mil/domesticviolence/reports/Start.pdf

The Military’s Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence
Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence
http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_militaryresponse.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Police Officer Perpetrators

Police Domestic Violence – A Handbook for Victims
http://www.dwetendorf.com/Victim_Handbook.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Protective Orders

Enforcement of Protective Orders (Office for Victims of Crime, 2002)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/legalseries/bulletin4/ncj189190.pdf

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Rural Issues

Women’s Rural Advocacy Programs
http://www.letswrap.com/

Rural Victim Assistance - A Victim/Witness Guide for Rural Prosecutors
http://www.ovc.gov/publications/infores/rural_victim_assistance/welcome.html

 

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – Statistics and Research

Intimate Partner Violence, 1993 – 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ipv01.htm

Intimate Partner Violence in the United States
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/ipv.htm

Findings about Partner Violence from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (National Institute of Justice, 1999)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/170018.pdf

Enhancing Responses to Domestic Violence: Promising Practices from the Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative (Vera Institute of Justice, 2004))
http://www.vera.org/publication_pdf/251_494.pdf

Effect of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence: New Evidence from the Spouse Assault Replication Program (National Institute of Justice, 2001)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/188199.pdf

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – General Resources

National Sexual Violence Resource Center
http://www.nsvrc.org/resources/

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org

RAINN
http://rainn.org/index.html

Sexual Violence Fact Sheet (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm

Rape in America: A Report to the Nation (1992)
http://www.legalmomentum.org/njep/dvd/pdf/rape_in_america.pdf

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT - College Campuses

American College of Emergency Physicians
http://www.acep.org/webportal

Violent Victimization of College Students, 1995-2002 (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/vvcs02.htm

Acquaintance Rape of College Students (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing, 2002)
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=269

Sexual Victimization of College Women (U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2000).
http://www.nsvrc.org/resources/types_sa/rape.html

Security on Campus, Inc.
http://www.securityoncampus.org/

White Paper on Campus Violence (American College Health Association, 2005)
http://www.acha.org/info_resources/Campus_Violence.pdf

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – Drug Facilitated Rape

Drug Facilitated Rape – Looking for the Missing Pieces (National Institute of Justice, 2000)
http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/jr000243c.pdf

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT - Intervention and Prevention

Evidence-Based Review of Sexual Assault Preventive Intervention Programs (National Institute of Justice, 2004)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/207262.pdf

Reducing Repeat Sexual Assault (Vera Institute of Justice)
http://www.vera.org/project/project1_1.asp?section_id=1&project_id=54

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – Judicial Education

National Judicial Education Program: Understanding Sexual Violence
http://www.legalmomentum.org/njep/dvd/

Michigan Judicial Institute – Sexual Assault Benchbook
http://www.courts.michigan.gov/mji/resources/sabb/sabb.htm

Understanding Sexual Violence: Prosecuting Adult Rape and Sexual Assault Cases
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:7XGPIw_IeJ8J:www.legalmomentum.org/njep/finalusvplive.pdf
+%22Understanding+Sexual+Violence:+Prosecuting+Adult+Rape+and+Sexual+Assault+Cases%22&hl=en

 


RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT - Military

Task Force Report on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault (2004)
http://www.dod.gov/news/May2004/d20040513SATFReport.pdf

Initiatives toward Implementation of the Task Force Recommendations
http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_military_tfcvsa.html

 


RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – Prison Rape

National Institute of Corrections – on staff sexual misconduct
http://nicic.org/WebPage_78.htm

National Institute of Corrections – Prison Rape Elimination Act
http://nicic.org/WebGateway_54.htm

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – Prosecution

Understanding Sexual Violence: Prosecuting Adult Rape and Sexual Assault Cases
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/usvpros/usvpros.shtml

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT - Sex Offenders

The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
www.atsa.com

Center for Sex Offender Management
http://www.csom.org/

Institute for Law and Justice
http://www.ilj.org/sa/index.htm

Managing Adult Sex Offenders in the Community: NIJ Research in Brief
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/managing/managing.html

Managing Adult Sex Offenders in the Community: A Containment Approach (National Institute of Justice, 1997)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/sexoff.pdf

National Conference on Sex Offender Registries
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ncsor.pdf

Sex Offender Community Notification (National Institute of Justice, 1997)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/162364.pdf

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT - Spousal Rape

National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape / Women’s History Library
http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html

Spousal Rape: 20 Years Later
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32701

 

 

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT – Statistics

Making Sense of Rape in America:
Where do the Numbers Come from and What do They Mean?
http://www.vawnet.org/SexualViolence/PublicPolicy/MakingSenseofRape.pdf

Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention, 1992-2000 (Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS], 2002)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rsarp00.pdf

Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/soo.txt

Temporal Variation in the Likelihood of Police Notification by Victims of Rapes, 1973-2000 (National Institute of Justice, 2004)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/207497.pdf

Sex Offenses and Offenders (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/soo.htm

 

 

STALKING

National Stalking Resource Center
http://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=dash_Home

Threat Assessment: An Approach to Prevent Targeted Violence (National Institute of Justice, 1995)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/threat.pdf

Stalking in America: Findings for the National Violence Against Women Survey
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/169592.txt

The Crime of Stalking: How Big is the Problem
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/fs000186.pdf

Stalking and Domestic Violence: The Third Annual Report to Congress Under the Violence Against Women Act, 1998)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/grants/stalk98/stalk98.pdf

Are you Being Stalked? Tips for Protection
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs14-stk.htm

 

 

INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the US Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/index.html

Cyberangels
http://www.cyberangels.org/

International Association of Computer Investigation Specialists
http://www.iacis.com/

Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA)
http://www.haltabuse.org/

1999 Report on Cyberstalking (Department of Justice)
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm

 

 

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

FBI - Workplace Violence: Issues in Response
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/violence.pdf

Workplace Violence: A Report to the Nation
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/iprc/NATION.pdf

Violence in the Workplace: Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/violcont.html

NIOSH – Occupational Violence
www.cdc.gov/niosh/injury/traumaviolence.html

Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
www.caepv.org

American Institute on Domestic Violence
http://www.aidv-usa.com/

Family Violence Prevention Fund
http://endabuse.org/workplace/

Blue Shield of California: Domestic Violence Workplace Resources
http://www.blueshieldcafoundation.org/domesticviolence/

Workplace Violence: 1992 – 1996 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wv96.htm

 

 

ELDER ABUSE

Crimes Against Persons Aged 65 and Older (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cpa6502.htm

 

 

MEDICAL RESOURCES

The Office on Women’s Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.4woman.gov/owh/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

International Association of Forensic Nurses
http://www.iafn.org/

American College of Emergency Physicians
http://www.acep.org/webportal

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Violence Against Women
http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_web.cfm?recno=17

American Society of Forensic Odontology
http://www.forensicdentistryonline.org/new_asfo/newasfo.htm

Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Technical Assistance
http://www.safeta.org/

 

 

MEDICAL RESOURCES – Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations

A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations Adults/Adolescents (U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, 2004).
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ovw/206554.pdf

SANE – SART
http://www.sane-sart.com/

The Effectiveness of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs (Violence Against Women Online Resources)
http://www.vawnet.org/SexualViolence/Research/VAWnetDocuments/AR_Sane.php

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs: Improving the Community Response to Sexual Assault Victims (Office for Victims of Crime, 2001)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/sane_4_2001/welcome.html

 

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES

American Academy of Forensic Psychology and American Board of Forensic Psychology
http://www.abfp.com/

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/violence.html

The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
http://www.aaets.org/index.html

 

 

TOXICOLOGY

American Board of Forensic Toxicology
http://www.abft.org/

 

 

GENERAL RESEARCH LINKS

Bureau of Justice Assistance
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org/

NIJ – “When Violence Hits Home: How Economics and Neighborhood Play a Role”
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/205004.htm

Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2000 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/fdluc00.htm

Crime and The Nation’s Households (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cnh03.htm