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Privacy & Safety on Facebook: A Guide for Survivors

This guide lays out both basic and more advanced privacy and safety features of Facebook, which can help survivors when they are trying to maximize privacy when using Facebook or are attempting to document an abusers’ online harassment.

Technology Safety Planning with Survivors

This handout provides some simple but critical tips about phone, computer, email, instant messaging and other technologies to discuss if someone you know is in danger. National Network to End Domestic Violence, 2013.

Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP)

The Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP) is a 43 item web-based assessment developed from the empirical research, clinical literature, stories from stalking victims, case studies, as well as feedback from victims, advocates, and other professionals in the field. SHARP provides an assessment of the “big picture” of the stalking situation.

Child Sex Offender Demographics (2014)

Chapter 4 in Advances in Forensic Human Identification.
This chapter reviews the information currently available for offender demographics, with a view to aiding our ability to identify and manage high-risk offenders.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization - National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2014)

This report examines sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization using data from 2011. The report describes the overall prevalence of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization; racial/ethnic variation in prevalence; how types of perpetrators vary by violence type; and the age at which victimization typically begins. For intimate partner violence, the report also examines a range of negative impacts experienced as a result of victimization, including the need for services.

A Victim's Guide to Restitution (2015)

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

This guide covers rights to restitution, a direct restitution order, collection and enforcement (both criminal and civil), and provides FAQs and additional resources.

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