Publication
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A short history of VAWA and its various reauthorization efforts over the years to commemorate the 25th anniversary of this groundbreaking legislation.
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We canvassed judges nationally to ask what they wish they had known before presiding in adult victim sexual assault cases. Judges Tell presents 25 points followed by commentary and sources.
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A summary of suggestions, for judges to judges, about how to minimize trauma throughout sexual assasult trials.
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Ten tips on creating a judicial education program based on NJEP's 40 years of experience in the field. Excerpt “Sex offense trials are “more difficult…to preside [over] from a legal and technical standpoint, a personal and emotional viewpoint, and a public scrutiny and public pressure perspective.”
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A guide on what to do if you are a victim of sexual abuse or relationship violence at school.
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Suggestions, developed for judges by judges, about how to incorporate understandings of sexual violence into the during the pre-trial, trial, and sentencing phases of an adult victim sexual assault case.
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This report describes the problem of sextortion, highlights the gaps in the law that allow perpetrators to escape accountability, and proposes simple legislative solutions.
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A report on the failure to test vast numbers of rape kits across the United States and the signficance for the rights of women, who are disproportionately impacted by sexual violence.
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The complete set of the eleven Information and Resource Sheets we have produced to educate courts, schools, parents, teens, and the community about teen dating violence.
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A medical forensic sexual assault examination cannot determine whether or not a sexual assault was perpetrated. However, it can provide objective documentation of examination findings that, when considered in the context of all the evidence, will assist the judge and jury in reconstructing the events in question and determining whether or not there was a sexual assault. The limitation on how much a medical forensic sexual assault examination can tell the court is not only due to the fact that “rape” and “sexual assault” are legal conclusions, not medical diagnoses.
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These 10 principles were developed by a national coalition of employer, labor, and government organizations and define a set of standards to guide workplace responses to domestic violence.
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