This Report and Executive Summary discuss the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) victims’ rights clinics are an effort to clarify and enforce victims’ rights legislation. The NCVLI clinics were intended to promote awareness, education, and enforcement of crime victims’ rights in the criminal justice system.
This booklet discusses the the evaluation of victim's rights clinics, which were designed to increase awareness of victims’ rights among criminal-justice professionals and to respond to violations of rights through legal advocacy.
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Publish Date
2009
NCVLI’s Victim Law Bulletins, provide in-depth analysis of important topics relating to the assertion and enforcement of crime victims’ rights and offer practice tips
Publish Date
March 2013
This Victim Law Bulletin discusses the impact of secondary victimization within the criminal justice system for people who have experienced multiple forms of victimization and how to reduce the harmful impacts of this experience.
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Publish Date
March 2013
NSVRC and the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence offer the following talking points to support discussions about the March, 2013 Steubenville, Ohio criminal trial.
Publish Date
March 2013
Aequitas released Issue #8 of their Strategies Newsletter. The December 2012 edition offers information for prosecutors on sexual abuse in confinement.
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Publish Date
December 2012
This bookletby the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA) has basic information on the following topics: what is sexual assault?; myths and facts about rape; information for immediately after sexual violence occurs; and the legal process. In Spanish. Ordering information (the PDF is free).
Este folleto por la Asociación de Tejas Contra el Asalto Sexual (en inglés, TAASA) tiene información básica sobre estos temas: ¿qué es asalto sexual? los mitos y los hechos acerca de la violación; información para inmediatamente después de la ocurrencia de violencia sexual; y el proceso legal. En inglés. Información para hacer un pedido.
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This statement from the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence discusses legislative solutions proposed to address the backlog of sexual assault forensic exam kits. It lists the essential elements needed to resolve this issue through legislation.
Publish Date
October 2012