NJEP’s resources are utilized by judges, court personnel, prosecutors, law enforcement, victim advocates, probation departments, law professors and others.
PRIMERS (Define)
- Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided In an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case, originally published by NJEP
- Cognitive Process, Stereotyping, Intersectionality and the Implications for the Courts, to be presented with the model curricula When Bias Compounds: Insuring Equal Justice for Women of Color in the Courts.
MODEL CURRICULA
These curricula, available for purchase, include hundreds of pages of material for educators.
- When Bias Compounds: Insuring Equal Justice for Women of Color in the Courts
- Adjudicating Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse When Custody is in Dispute
- Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge’s Role in Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault Cases
- Understanding Sexual Violence: Prosecuting Adult Rape and Sexual Assault Cases
These free online curricula are available for download and consist of a Power Point presentation with suggested commentary, a faculty manual, exercises and handouts.
- Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Violence (link-change to new link)
- Elder Victims of Sexual Abuse (new link)
- Interpreters in Adult Victim Sexual Assault Cases (new link)
- Jury Selection and Decision Making in Adult Victim Sexual Assault Cases (new link)
- Women in Drug Treatment Courts: Sexual Assault as the Underlying Trauma (new link)
- The Challenges of Adult Victim Sexual Assault Cases: Materials For New Judges (new link)
- Raped or “Seduced?” How Language Helps Shape Our Response to Sexual Violence
- The Intersection of Stalking and Sexual Assault (link)
WEB COURSE
NJEP’s Web Course provides current interdisciplinary research from law, medicine and the social sciences that is applicable to judicial decision-making and case management. The site can be treated as a course or as a resource to be consulted as needed.
DVDs
NJEP’s DVDs can be used in conjunction with other training modules, or shown on their own.
- The Undetected Rapist (The "Frank" DVD featuring Dr. David Lisak)(DVD)
- A Response to “The Undetected Rapist” (DVD)
- Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge’s Role in Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault Cases (4-hour DVD)
- Presenting Medical Evidence in an Adult Rape Trial (2-hour DVD)
PUBLICATIONS
NJEP increases professional and public awareness of gender bias in the courts and the ways to eliminate it through publication of articles in professional journals and other media, including reports, manuals and independent publications.
The following is a sample of some of NJEP’s publications. For a complete list, and access to those for which online reprint permission is available, click here (link).
- Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided In an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case, originally published by NJEP
- Risk Assessment and Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence, originally published in Judicata
- Gender Justice and the Law: From Asylum to Zygotes, originally published by NJEP and currently available for purchase
- Evaluating the Evaluators: Problems Without Outside “Neutrals” originally published in JJ (need link)
- Women of Color in the Courts originally published in Trial (link)
- There’s No Accounting for Judges originally published in Albany Law Review
- Is the Law Male? Let Me Count the Ways originally published in Trial
The following is information on how to establish and support a judicial task force.
- Operating a Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts: A Manual for Action
- Planning for Evaluation: Guidelines for Task forces on Gender Bias in the Courts
- Learning from the New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force on Women in the Courts: Evaluation, Recommendations and Implications for Other States
- Gender Fairness in the Courts: Action for the New Millennium (need link)
- Gender Fairness Strategies Project: Implementation Resources Directory
