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Attorney Safety Guide
Attorneys who work on cases involving domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS)… Read more
Battered Women’s Justice Project
Court Practice in Domestic Violence Protection Order Cases: Creating Court Summary Information Forms
Because protection orders can be the basis by which someone is ineligible to receive a… Read more
Battered Women’s Justice Project
Court Practice in Misdemeanor Crimes of Domestic and Dating Violence Cases: Creating Court Summary Information Forms
Because misdemeanor convictions for crimes of domestic and dating violence can be the basis by… Read more
Battered Women’s Justice Project
U.S. v. Rahimi: Understanding the Implications for Protection Orders and Firearms Prohibitions
In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal law that prohibits domestic abusers… Read more
Battered Women’s Justice Project
What High Schools and Colleges Need to Know About Dating Violence and Firearms
In the United States, one in eight high school students reports having been subjected to… Read more
Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)
Workshop: Stalking: Know It, Name It, Stop It – PowerPoint slides (accessible)
An accessible version (text-only) of a slideshow for a public awareness workshop on stalking.
Safety Planning Strategies for Stalking Victims
A guide on general safety planning tips and information for those experiencing stalking. This guide is not designed to replace a personalized safety plan created with the assistance of a professional.
Safety Planning Strategies for Stalking Victims (Spanish)
A guide (in Spanish) on general safety planning tips and information for those experiencing stalking. This guide is not designed to replace a personalized safety plan created with the assistance of a professional.
Stalking SLII Behaviors as Sexual Violence
A handout detailing examples of how sexual violence can intersect with each of the four stalking SLII tactics (Surveillance, Life invasion, Intimidation, and Interference through sabotage or attack), which themselves overlap and build on each other.
Stalking Statutes in Review (current as of January 2022)
An analysis and summary of key elements and aspects of stalking laws across the United States in detail. Current as of January 2022.
Stalking: Effective Strategies for Prosecutors
Strategies In Brief, Issue #11 (April 2012). A short guide for prosecutors detailing how to recognize the danger stalkers pose to their victims, how to work with experts to understand and respond to stalking, and how to collaborate and coordinate with other allied criminal justice professionals.
National Network to End Domestic Violence
State Confidentiality and Privilege Laws
State and territory laws pertaining to confidentiality and privacy.
National Housing & Community Development Law Project
State Protections for Tenants Needing Police or Emergency Assistance (2019)
A number of states have laws that protect someone’s right to call police or emergency assistance, though the level of protection varies by state. This one-page resource provides a basic overview of several common types of state protections that protect tenants from facing penalties such as eviction because the tenant (or someone on the tenant’s behalf) called for police or emergency assistance. Oftentimes, local nuisance or crime-free ordinances impose such penalties.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
State-by-State Teen Dating Violence Report Card 2009
Break the Cycle refined its scoring system in order to better assess the way that state civil domestic violence protection order laws address the needs of teen victims of domestic violence. *Former product of Break the Cycle now a resource of NCJFCJ*
Strategies for Increasing Responses to Jury Summonses
Presentation on strategies for increasing community responses to jury summonses.