Our staff are available to provide customized training related to sexual violence, domestic and intimate partner violence, stalking, human trafficking, child abuse, elder abuse, and witness intimidation.
Examine the co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and animal cruelty; learn how coordinated responses and successful prosecution strategies can promote victim safety and offender accountability.
Learn innovative practices in developing a victim-centered response and an offender-focused approach to the prosecution of labor trafficking.
Understand issues around sexual assault injury documentation in medical-forensic examinations and how the absence of anogenital injury does not rule out sexual assault.
Gain insight into the historical context of Crawford and its impact in cases where the victim is unable to participate in the criminal justice process.
Learn to successfully employ the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing in domestic violence cases as a means of proving the case when a defendant has engaged in wrongdoing to prevent the victim from testifying at trial.
Learn critical, innovative strategies that develop more effective responses to human trafficking as well as more successful means of prosecuting these crimes.
Understand the dynamics of stalking, the technology stalkers employ, and collaborative strategies for investigation and prosecution that maximize victim participation and safety.
Learn strategies for building a strong trial court record that supports the conviction and imposed sentence and withstands challenge on appeal.
See a summary of the statutes and guidelines in the U.S. related to payment for Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations.
Understand the impact of Bullcoming v. New Mexico on prosecutors' introduction of laboratory analyses in view of defendants' rights under the Confrontation Clause.
Understand how coordinated response to sexual violence can effectively hold offenders accountable while protecting victims and communities.
Gain insight into how specialized units foster collaborative approaches to domestic and sexual violence cases that improve experiences for victims, police, prosecutors, and community partners.