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Sexual assault within the military continues to occur at alarming levels with 26,000 anonymously reported incidents in 2012 alone according to Department of Defense (DoD) estimates. During this same period, only 3,300 service members reported their assaults. Meanwhile, the nation is confronted with headlines of high level military sexual assault leaders acting in sexually abusive ways. Combined with the heart-wrenching stories of survivors, these facts reveal the depth of the problem of military sexual assault (MSA) and demand incisive action.

 The Office for Victims of Crime is pleased to announce the release of the Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report, the first comprehensive assessment of the victim assistance field in nearly 15 years. The Vision 21 initiative gave participants the opportunity to engage with a broad spectrum of service providers, advocates, criminal justice professionals, allied practitioners, and policymakers to address crime victim issues through a lens broader than their everyday work. The result of this collective examination, the report seeks to permanently transform the way crime victims are treated in this country. The Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report discusses the following:

  • Major challenges to the integration of research into victim services.
  • The tremendous need for crime victims to have access to legal assistance to address the wide range of legal issues that can arise following victimization.
  • The impact of advances in technology, globalization, and changing demographics on the victim assistance field.
  • The capacity for serving victims in the 21st century and some of the infrastructure issues that must be overcome to reach that capacity.

Furthermore, the final report outlines recommendations for beginning the transformative change, which fall into the following four broad categories:

  • Conducting continuous rather than episodic strategic planning in the victim assistance field to effect real change in research, policy, programming, and capacity building.
  • Supporting research to build a body of evidence-based knowledge and generate, collect, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data on victimization, emerging victimization trends, services and behaviors, and victims’ rights enforcement efforts.
  • Ensuring the statutory, policy, and programmatic flexibility to address enduring and emerging crime victim issues.
  • Building and institutionalizing capacity through an infusion of technology, training, and innovation to ensure that the field is equipped to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Presents data from the 2012 National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC), conducted in 326 juvenile confinement facilities between February and September 2012, with a sample of 8,707 adjudicated youth. The report ranks facilities according to the prevalence of sexual victimization, as required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-79). The prevalence of victimization, as reported by youth during a personal interview, is based on sexual activity in the 12 months prior to the interview or since admission to the facility, if less than 12 months. This report provides state- and national-level estimates of juvenile sexual victimization by type of activity, including estimates of youth-on-youth nonconsensual sexual contact, staff sexual misconduct, and level of coercion. It also explores sexual victimization by the characteristics of both the perpetrator and youth at high risk of victimization, location and time of incidents, and nature of the relationship between youth and facility staff prior to sexual contact.

 El guía breve fue diseñado para hombres que están en tratamiento por el abuso de sustancias para que ellos pueden enfrentar los problemas asociados con el abuso infantil. También disponible en inglés.

Issues 9 and 10 of the Strategies Prosecutors Newsetter on Violence Against Women discuss finding a balance between victim privacy and offender accountability in cases. Issue 9 offers an overview of confidentiality and privilege laws. Issue 10 discusses protecting privileges and the victims who assert them.

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El folleto proviene información básica sobre el acecho como algunas cosas que hacen los acechadores, sentimientos comunes de víctimas y cosas que víctimas pueden hacer. También está disponible en blanco y negro y letra grande, y en inglés (color, blanco y negro, y letra grande)

La hoja (de una página) tiene información básica y estadísticas sobre el acoso. El recurso es de The Stalking Resource Center [El Centro de Información sobre Acecho]. También disponible en inglés.

El folleto tiene información básica sobre ADN y su uso en el casos penales (p. ej., los orígenes típicos de evidencia ADN, CODIS y el perfil ADN). Hay otro folleto para víctimas. También disponible en inglés.

El folleto tiene información básica sobre ADN y su uso en el casos penales (p. ej., ciencia básica del ADN, la recopilación de evidencia ADN y resultados de las pruebas). Hay otro folleto para proveedoras(es) de servicios. También disponible en inglés.

El manual del gobierno mexicano se centra en las estrategias en el uso el uso no sexista del lenguaje. Las secciones incluyen: el papel del lenguaje como agente socializador de género, el género en la gramática, el sexo de las personas, la gramática y la semántica, el uso del neutro, el uso de genéricos, profesiones ejercidas por mujeres, el uso del gerundio y otras estrategias, el lenguaje administrativo y documentos con lenguaje sexista.

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