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"If someone is so afraid that they won’t come to court, the last thing you want to do is to arrest that person,” said Jennifer Long, a former Philadelphia prosecutor who heads the group AEquitas: The Prosecutors’ Resource on Violence Against Women.
Attorney General Andy Beshear plans to host a three-day sexual assault cold case training for law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocates across the state related to Kentucky’s Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence kit, or SAFE kit backlog. The free training will run from April 11 through April…
State lawmakers are poised this week to pass legislation that will require police in Maryland to keep rape kits for 20 years. But what to do with the kits remains a topic of considerable debate. [ . . . ] Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger called the retention bill a "common…
Explore important issues to consider when creating or refining policy on body-worn camera usage.
Examine the impact of Ohio v. Clark on the admissibility of out-of-court statements by non-testifying witnesses in light of the Sixth Amendment, where the declarant is a young child or otherwise incapable of understanding the concept of prosecution or where made to individuals who are mandatory…
Explore important issues to consider when body-worn cameras are used in gender-based violence investigations.
Despite intense police and government scrutiny of the website — which last month led Backpage’s operators to shutter its notorious “adult” section while complaining about government censorship — the reality is that not much has changed. The world’s oldest profession continues to openly ply its…
Sexual abuse investigations are rare in New Jersey's prisons, and convictions are even less common, according to an NJ Advance Media review of state and federal data. But experts warn those statistics don't paint a true picture of what's happening behind bars. One of the biggest impediments to…
New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a sexual assault bill that police and prosecutors warn would protect pedophiles and sexual predators but proponents say would prevent wrongful convictions. Thirty-six states don't require corroboration and most of the remaining states that do require it in…
Jennifer Gentile Long, the CEO of AEquitas, a group that advises prosecutors in sex crime cases, noted that research consistently shows that the overwhelming majority of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone the victim has met. “Very few rapes are by strangers dragging people off the streets,”…
Learn how abusers leverage technology and how prosecutors can execute strategies for combating the abuse and holding offenders accountable.
Learn about issues that commonly arise in multiple-offender and witnessed rape cases.