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Video History of the Crime Victims’ Field Available Online

Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Discussion Guide

Victim Impact Statement Resource Kit

Restitution

Documenting Restitution Losses

Survey Results

The Scope of Crime Victim Services Within Attorneys General Offices

Technical Assistance

Conducting a Basic Victim Needs Assessment: Issues to Consider

Focus Groups: An Important Tool For Strategic Planning

Victims and Corrections

Community Service

Institutional and Community Corrections-Sponsored Community Service Projects to Benefit Crime Victims In Conjunction With National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

Implementing Victims' Rights: Why Corrections Professionals Should Care

The Three "R's" of Re-Entry

Sample Conditions for Community Corrections

Offender Apology Package

Victim Safety

Home Security for Victims

National Crime Victim Advocates Promote Cell Phones as a Safety Tool “Put It On ICE”

Victim Services

Communicating with Victims: "The Do's and Don'ts"


General Victim Issues

Title: Video History of the Crime Victims’ Field Available Online

Category: General
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Length: 50 hours of Video Interviews and Corresponding Texts

Summary:
The Oral History of the Crime Victim Assistance Field is now available online at http://vroh.uakron.edu.  The website offers users more than 60 hours of video clips which encompass the first hand accounts of more than 50 of the field’s history-making pioneers. The website and video archive represent the world’s most comprehensive and extensive archive of its kind anywhere in the world.

Click Here to access the Video History Project


Title: Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Discussion Guide

Category: Victim's Rights
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Length: 34 pages

Summary:
This Resource Package was developed by Victim Advocate Anne Seymour (Justice Solutions: Washington, D.C. 2001) to provide guidelines for courts and correctional agencies that are responsible for implementing victims’ right to an impact statement. Provides guidelines and helpful suggestions for victims and victim service providers to help them develop effective victim impact statements.

Includes sample cover letter and sample impact statement development form.

CLICK HERE to view Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Videotape Discussion Guide Introduction

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Title: Victim Impact Statement Resource Kit.

Category: Victim's Rights
Related Categories: Victim Impact Statements
Length: 15 pages

Summary:
This Resource Package was developed by Victim Advocate Anne Seymour (Justice Solutions: Washington, D.C. 2001) to provide guidelines for courts and correctional agencies that are responsible for implementing victims’ right to an impact statement. Provides guidelines and helpful suggestions for victims and victim service providers to help them develop effective victim impact statements.

Includes sample cover letter and sample impact statement development form.

CLICK HERE to view Complete Resource Package

CLICK HERE to print Complete Resource Package in pdf format

 


Restitution

Title: Documenting Restitution Losses

Category: Restitution
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Length: 3 pages

Summary: Article provides a very helpful list of guidelines to help victims document their restitution loses. Includes a comprehensive list of expenses that should be considered when making restitution claims and specific ways to document them.

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Survey Results

Title: The Scope of Crime Victim Services Within Attorneys General Offices

Category: Survey Results
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Length: 9 pages

Summary: In 2004, the National Association of Attorneys General – with support from Justice Solutions and the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators – conducted a survey about programs and services sponsored by state Attorneys General for victims and survivors of crime. This “Summary Report” – along with a roster of identified AG-sponsored victim assistance programs – provides an excellent overview of victims’ rights and services available through most states’ Attorneys General Offices.

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Technical Assistance

Title: Conducting a Basic Victim Needs Assessment: Issues to Consider

Category: Technical Assistance
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Length: 2 pages

Summary:
This document includes a detailed overview of crime victims’ most basic needs; their needs related to their core rights as victims; and their potential need for services (which can be easily incorporated into a basic victim needs assessment tool).

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Title: Focus Groups: An Important Tool For Strategic Planning

Category: Technical Assistance
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Length: 34 pages

Summary:

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Victims and Corrections

Title: Community Service

Category: Victims and Corrections
Related Categories: Restitution
Length: 2 pages

Summary: Addresses the issue Community Service in the context of community corrections to hold offenders accountable and to repay the community for the damage resulting from the commission of the crime. Includes a list of some of the most promising examples of actual Community Service programs.


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Title: Institutional and Community Corrections-sponsored Community Service Projects to Benefit Crime Victims In Conjunction With National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

Category: Victims and Corrections
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Length: 24 pages

Summary: Summaries of Community Service Projects Submitted by:

Introduction and Overview

Click each of the links above to view the Summaries on line:

CLICK HERE to print: Institutional and Community Corrections-sponsored Community Service Projects to Benefit Crime Victims In Conjunction WithNational Crime Victims’ Rights Week in .pdf format



Title: Implementing Victims' Rights: Why Corrections Professionals Should Care

Category: Technical Assistance
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Length: 6 pages

Summary:

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Title: Three R's of Re-Entry

Category: Victims and Corrections
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Length: 22 pages

Summary: Written by a highly-respected team of community and institutional corrections and victim assistance professionals, and a victim of crime (with support from Justice Solutions), “The Three Rs of Reentry” addresses the tenets of reparative justice, relationships and responsibility within the context of crime and victimization.


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Title: Sample Conditions of Offender Community Supervision Relevant to Crime Victims

Category: Victims and Corrections
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Length: 3 pages

Summary: When a convicted offender is sentenced to community supervision (on probation or parole), his or her victim should consider the range of options available to promote information, notification and safety. This document lists the range of issues that crime victims should consider as possible conditions of probation or parole.


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Title: Offender Apology Package

Category:Offender
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Length: 5 pages

Summary: In many criminal and juvenile cases, judges and paroling authorities include an “apology to the victim” as a condition of the sentence, or a victim will seek an apology as part of the sentencing process. This package includes: a letter to the victim/survivor describing the apology process; a guided curriculum for offenders to help them reach a point where they are prepared and ready to apologize to their victim(s) in a meaningful way; and a cover letter for victims who choose to receive an apology from their offender(s).

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Victim Safety

Title: Home Security for Victims

Category: Victim Safety
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Length: 3 pages

Summary: When someone is victimized, concerns about personal and family safety may occur. This document provides useful tips about how to ensure that one’s home is as safe as possible in the aftermath of crime.


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CLICK HERE to print Home Security for Victims in pdf format


Title: National Crime Victim Advocates Promote Cell Phones as a Safety Tool “Put It On ICE”

Category: Victim Safety
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Length: 3 pages

Summary: When someone is victimized, concerns about personal and family safety may occur. This document provides useful tips about how to ensure that one’s home is as safe as possible in the aftermath of crime.


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Victim Services

Title: Communicating with Victims: "The Do's and Don'ts"

Category: Victim Services
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Length: 13 pages

Summary: A very practical guide discussing "what" and "what not" to say to victims in the wake of the crime. Includes discussion of such topics as: clues related to non-verbal communications; effective listening skills, tips for telephone interviews; answering difficult questions; communicating with child victims; and communicating with grieving victims.


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