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When an Interview Becomes an Interrogation – Advocating in Challenging Situations
Using a real case scenario, the presenters will discuss how an advocate can, and should respond in these challenging situations. Presenters will also share tips on how law enforcement and advocates can work together to improve responses to survivors.
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“Mindhunting” in Practice: Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Offender-Focused Investigations
The investigation of cold case sexual assaults presents unique challenges to law enforcement. While victims are centered in these investigations, shifting the focus to those who commit these crimes is an under-utilized yet effective approach.
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Empathy Inspired Policing – How the Trauma Informed Approach Can Improve All Aspects of Policing
This presentation will describe and demonstrate proven ways to improve outcomes for all survivors of trauma.
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Arrests Don’t Always Occur- Victim Centered Principles when Conducting a Criminal Investigation
As the country continues to search for a criminal justice model that utilizes more principles of procedural justice, this presentation will offer ways for law enforcement professionals to implement these principles now.
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Comprehensive Victim Interviewing
After helping victims to recall and share details about their sexual assault, investigators must piece these details together with other information and evidence, to compile a linear and evidence-based account of the crime.
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Seek Then Speak: Online Interviewing Tool for Sexual Assault Survivors
To increase access to reporting and services, EVAWI partnered with EBinRA to create a self-guided, online interviewing tool for sexual assault victims.
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Strategies for Enhancing Victim-Witness Testimony in Sexual Assault Cold Case Investigations
Cold case investigations pose unique challenges for investigators who question victims and witnesses many years after a crime was committed. Challenges to eliciting victim-witness testimony include identifying and overcoming motivational barriers (e.g., reluctance), as well as factors related to the fallibility of human memory (e.g., source misattribution). Investigators have traditionally received little training in how to elicit cold case testimony. Drawing on examples from actual cases, this presentation will identify unique investigative challenges inherent to eliciting cold case testimony and review evidence-based strategies for enhancing victim-witness reports.
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Ten Steps to Consider When Conducting a Criminal Sexual Assault Investigation
This presentation will focus on lessons learned from a 25-year law enforcement career which has placed the presenter in a variety of communities. Whether inner-city Atlanta, Georgia, the St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, or on a college campus, sound trauma-informed investigative principles around gender-based violence and sexual assault should apply equally to all.
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Conducting Interviews in the Virtual Environment – New Normal to Increase Access
While it has been a long-accepted practice to interview victims of crime in person, the recent global pandemic has caused what is viewed as normal to shift. In the interest of public and personal safety it has been imperative for people to consider space and distance to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Schools have closed, court hearings have been postponed, and in some jurisdictions, interviewing crime victims had to be postponed or reimagined.
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Part 1: Effective Victim Interviewing: Helping Victims Retrieve and Disclose Memories
Part 1 includes clips from videotaped interviews with sexual assault victims, conducted by an investigator following best practices, including accompaniment by a victim advocate. With dramatic twists and turns, these interviews demonstrate the transformative effect of a good interview conducted by a skilled and compassionate investigator, with discussion centering on recommended practices.
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