Animal Cruelty Criminal Statutes
Misdemeanor Crimes of Domestic Violence
The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice: A Lawyer’s Handbook, Second Edition
Best Practices for Lawyers Assisting Pro Se Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking With Civil Protection Cases Manual
Trainers’ Guide: ABA Commission on Domestic Violence Fundamentals of Domestic Violence for Attorneys Institute
2007 | Urging bar associations and law schools to develop programs that assist victims of DV with pardon, restoration of rights, clemency, parole, etc. |
2004 | Urging Congress to enact legislation addressing the large number of adults and juveniles with mental I llness or disorders who come into contact with the criminal justice system, with specified recommendations. |
2000 | Urging the funding and reauthorization of the Family Unity Demonstration Project of the Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994. |
1997 | Supporting protection of victims' rights and adopting further measures to protect those rights. |
1996 | Supporting initiatives that seek to promote and preserve health relationships between children and their parents in correctional custody. |
1996 | Encouraging states to ensure that counseling, treatment, advocacy, and other assistance are made available to child victims, and to require that perpetrators to undergo counseling and other treatment. |
1995 | Opposing FRE 413, 414, and 415 as enacted by the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. |
1994 | Encouraging the incorporation of publicly or privately operated victim-offender mediation programs. |
1985 | Approving the "Guidelines For Fair Treatment of Child Witnesses in Cases Where Child Abuse is Alleged" |
1983 | Approving a defense of non-responsibility for crime as a result of mental disease or defect; charging the prosecution with the burden of disproving the defendant's claim beyond a reasonable doubt; and charging the defense with proving the defect by a preponderance of the evidence. |
1983 | Approving a defense of non-responsibility for crime as a result of mental disease or defect; charging the prosecution with the burden of disproving the defendant's claim beyond a reasonable doubt; and charging the defense with proving the defect by a preponderance of the evidence. |
1978 | Recommendations for implementation of the policy adopted in February, 1978, supporting efforts to combat family violence. |
Stalking Laws (Stalking Resource Center – National Center for Victims of Crime)
National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative
ABA Commission on Law and Aging: Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams: A Replication Manual
The National Center on Child Fatality Review
National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women
Office for Victims of Crime, Directory of Crime Victim Services
National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
Battered Women’s Justice Project
Victim Law: Your Source for Crime Victims Rights and Protections
Abuse of Power: The Clearinghouse on Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence
Victims of Crime: Resource Center
Article: Working with Victims with Disabilities
Report: State Court Processing of Domestic Violence Cases
