Manual: Making the Cost Benefit Case for Domestic Violence Prevention






Tools For Action: Community Policing & Law Enforcement


An Advocate's Guide To Full Faith and Credit For Orders of Protection
This guide offers a concise explanation of federal laws requiring nationwide enforcement of orders of protection for survivors of domestic violence.


A Police Officer's Guide When In Contact With People Who Have Mental Retardation
This brochure offers helpful tips for police on how to communicate effectively and clearly with people with mental retardation in arrest and victim assistance situations.


Bullying In Schools
This guide provides school administrators, parents, teachers and police with information about bullying and examples of effective strategies for reducing and preventing bullying in schools.


Community Policing To Reduce and Prevent Violence Against Women: Training Curriculum and Resource Guide
This curriculum uses engaging, interactive exercises to train law enforcement and advocacy professionals in applying community policing principles to crimes against women in their own communities.


Confronting Domestic Violence: Effective Police Response
Two model law enforcement protocols "for New York and Pennsylvania" are featured in this manual for training law enforcement officers in responding to domestic violence calls.


Counting Our Victories: Popular Education and Organizing
This training guide on popular education and organizing contains practical resources to help grassroots groups build their organizational capacity, strengthen their initiatives, and work together more effectively with other groups.


Count To Ten Action Kit
Designed as part of a county-wide domestic violence prevention campaign in Fresno County, this kit invites community members and business leaders to participate in community activities aimed at preventing domestic violence.


Creating Access: Serving Survivors of Sexual Assault With Disabilities
This packet includes information and training materials designed to help sexual assault and domestic violence programs become better informed about disability issues, terms, history and resources.


Domestic Violence Arrests: Beyond The Obvious
This training video and curriculum set use interactive exercises to help law enforcement officers identify the "primary" or "dominant" aggressor in domestic violence situations.


Domestic Violence: The Law Enforcement Response
Engaging and well-designed curriculum package for law enforcement trainers on responding to domestic violence calls.


First Response To Victims Of Crime 2001
This handbook helps law enforcement officers better understand and meet the needs of crime victims, especially those who have experienced interpersonal violence or abuse.


Investigation and Prosecution of Domestic Violence
This manual provides a wealth of legal and procedural information for attorneys involved with prosecuting domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault crimes within California.


Marin County Law Enforcement Protocol
This protocol for California law enforcement officers offers a concise, up-to-date set of procedures and checklists for responding to domestic violence calls. (PDF)


Raising Our Voices
This newsletter features stories on the struggles of women with disabilities around the world to be included in policy forums that address women's roles in economic development.


Working With Victims Of Crime With Disabilities
Recommendations from a symposium on improving the law enforcement response to crime victims with disabilities are reported in this newsletter, along with examples of promising practices in the field.
 
 
     
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