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Victim assistance

  • Achieving Excellence in Correctional Victim Services Through Collaboration [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held September 11-15, 2006]

    Crime is everyone's business. It affects entire communities.

  • Promising Victim Related Practices in Probation and Parole Fact Sheet Series

    Access to eight fact sheets “on topics related to crime victims and victims’ needs throughout the community corrections process” is provided.

  • Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services: Final Report

    “The Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report presents a cohesive and comprehensive framework for strategic change in the victim servic

  • Voice of the Victim: A Perspective Spotlight Issue

    This special issue of Perspectives is “is dedicated to promoting innovative programs, policies and protocols that improve crime victims’ rights and

  • Evaluation of the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification Program

    Results from an evaluation of Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) programs are presented.

  • Promising Victim Related Practices in Probation and Parole: Training Curriculum [and] Participant Manual [Lesson Plans and Participants' Manual]

    “The goal of this training program is to provide community corrections officers with information on strategies they can use to enhance their intera

  • Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers: Selected Resources Annotated Bibliography

    Victims have statutory rights that begin the moment a crime is committed against them.

  • Victim Services and PREA: A Trauma-Informed Approach

    This training program "was designed to prepare corrections staff to develop and implement a victim services program that is both trauma-informed an

  • Offender Reentry: The Value of Victim Involvement [Broadcast]

    This three-hour national discussion and broadcast by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) focuses on the unique opportunities and challenges

  • Innovative Practices for Victim Services: Report from the Field

    "This e-bulletin provides brief descriptions of some of the innovative practices used by VOCA victim assistance and compensation programs.

  • Estimating the Financial Costs of Crime Victimization: Study Delineates Research Needs To Inform Victim Services Policies, Programs (2021)

    Crime victimization is a vast social harm.

  • Geiger Institute

    The Geiger Institute is a national initiative to end domestic violence homicides.

  • Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance (2022)

    The purpose of this document is to establish guidelines to be followed by officers and employees of the U.S.