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Hey Siri, How Do You Increase Accountability & Safety in Stalking Cases?
As technology evolves, so do the tactics used by perpetrators of interpersonal violence—especially in cases involving stalking and online abuse.
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How will Virtual Reality and the Metaverse Affect the Way We Interact, Work, and Fight for Survivors
This presentation will examine how Virtual Reality will impact the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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A Better Victim Experience – Improving Accessibility
VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday) supports all victims of crime through its innovative technology, designed with a human-centered approach to provide victims with access to empowering life-saving resources.
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STALKED: A Case Study
Anna Nasset will share her experience as a victim of stalking for over a decade. Through the years, Ms. Nasset has worked with nearly 100 service providers and community members, and successfully experienced prosecution.
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NOW I SPEAK: Victim Impact Statements
In this webinar, Ms. Nasset shares her own victim impact statement and breaks down how she created it, the people she worked with, and her thoughts behind it.
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Measuring Success in the Criminal Justice System’s Response to VAWA Crimes
Since 2019, the Violence Against Women Measuring Effectiveness Initiative (VAWA MEI) and the Justice Research and Statistical Association (JRSA) have been engaged in efforts to research, pilot, evaluate, and recommend outcome measures that OVW and grantees can use to measure the success of law enforcement’s response to crimes. The project will culminate in recommendations to OVW for collecting outcomes that are linked to good practice, matched to VAWA-funded activities, useful to grantees for data-driven decision-making, feasible for both OVW and grantees to implement, and minimally burdensome for grantees to use. This presentation shares the results of this two-year exploration.
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Using Restorative Justice to Benefit Victim Survivors: Is It Possible?
Although an ancient practice, restorative justice is experiencing a revival in public interest. Communities, particularly those that have been shut out of the traditional American systems of adjudicating crime, are drawn to a system which incorporates community residents into the decision-making process.
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Image-Based Abuse and Trauma
Image-based sexual abuse, which is sometimes referred to as “revenge pornography” is the distribution of sexually explicit images or video of individuals without their permission. The material may be used by the perpetrators to blackmail the subjects into performing sex acts, to punish them for ending a relationship, to coerce them into continuing a relationship, or to silence them. In addition to these dynamics, extortion and monetary payment are often involved. Image-based sexual abuse is a form of psychological and domestic abuse, as well as a form of sexual abuse. This type of evidence, coupled with the suspect’s manipulative behavior, is used to control victims in domestic violence and human trafficking situations.
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Sexual Assault and Stalking Survivor Safety: Promoting New Approaches to Long-Standing Crimes
Advocates, lawyers, law enforcement, and other first responders are often well-schooled in safety planning with survivors of intimate partner violence. However, many of the most common safety planning tools and methodologies are not relevant to survivors of non-intimate partner (including stranger) sexual assault and stalking. These commonly misunderstood, and severely underreported, crimes require safety plans that are informed by and responsive to survivors’ realities. In this interactive session, we will explore the intersection of stalking and sexual violence, identify stalking behaviors, summarize possible legal remedies to enhance survivor safety, and share examples and strategies to safety plan with and support victims of stalking and sexual violence.
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Utilizing Technical Evidence in Stalking Investigations and Prosecutions
This presentation covers the applicable rules of evidence and relevant case law associated with proving a technology-facilitated stalking case and will provide strategies on when and how to introduce technical evidence and overcome common objections at trial.
