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Bridges to Life

Rehabilitation, Reconciliation, and Community Safety. Bridges To Life (BTL) brings healing to victims of crime, reduces recidivism among offender graduates of the program, and helps make our community a safer place.

Victim Services Division, Fiscal Year 2014, Annual Report

The Victim Services Division (VSD) was first established as a section in the Parole Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in 1993. The creation of the Victim Services Section was a result of crime victims requesting services, the foresight of staff and the passage of crime victims’ rights by the Texas Legislature. This report provides highlights from the VSD for FY 2014.

SOTIPS: Sex Offender Treatment Intervention and Progress Scale (2013)

The Sex Offender Treatment Intervention and Progress Scale (SOTIPS) is a statistically-derived dynamic measure designed to aid clinicians, correctional caseworkers, and probation and parole officers in assessing risk, treatment and supervision needs, and progress among adult males who have been convicted of one or more qualifying sexual offenses and committed at least one of these sexual offenses after their 18th birthday ' SOTIPS item scores are intended to reflect an individual's relative treatment and supervision needs on each risk factor.

Writing Victim Impact Statements

This guide describes the purpose of a victim impact statement, what should be included in the statement and options for making the statement. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Victim and Survivor Rights and Services

This brochure provides an overview of victim rights and services around notification and restitution, as well as a description of what happens to someone once convicted of a crime. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Assessing the Scope and Availability of Services for Human Trafficking Victims Among Georgia's Victims' Services Providers

The objective of this study is to attempt to capture the number of victims served for human trafficking offenses as well as the services they received. This research study seeks to identify who is currently serving human trafficking victims, how agencies are identifying human trafficking victims, how many victims were served in Georgia during the 2012 Calendar Year (CY2012), services that are available to human trafficking victims, and the training that providers currently serving victims are receiving.

Protecting Crime Victims' Rights

A three part set of documents on the rights of crime victims. Part 1 is a general training bulletin on crime victims' rights. Part 2 focuses on implementation and enforcement. Part 3 provides examples and innovations. End Violence Against Women International, 2015.

Rights Enforcement Toolkit

The Toolkit has three parts: Pretrial, Trial, Post-Trial. Whether you are entering a case pretrial, during trial, or post-trial, because victims’ rights can arise at any time, reviewing all of the tools is critical. The tools come in the form of video tutorials of rights, flowcharts that guide you through the how and when of asserting rights, checklists to ensure you are making all of the best arguments, and sample pleadings. National Crime Victim Law Institute.

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