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Legal
Resources
Links on Legal Resources.
Please, look through the links, and if you have any links that you would like to
contribute, please e-mail them to us! We
would like to get a complete list of links in the near future.
Child Protection
Reform
America's child protection system has immense
power. It operates in secrecy. It enjoys total immunity. Parents and children
have few meaningful rights. Under current law, the system created to protect
children has become America's greatest source of family and child abuse.
Following the enactment of the Violence
Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA), many government and private organizations have
collaborated to offer assistance to individuals and families struggling with the
problems related to domestic violence. Under a grant from the National Institute
of Justice (NIJ), U.S. Department of Justice, the Institute for Law and Justice
(ILJ) has collected at this site references and organizational contacts which
may be of practical or legal/educational use to families, justice professionals,
or mental health and social service professionals.
ILJ has conducted four national
evaluations for the U. S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
and Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) of major OVW grant programs that
address domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The most recent of
these was the National Evaluation of the Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV)
program, an OVW initiative through which grantees provide both civil legal
assistance and advocacy services to victims who cannot afford a private
attorney. ILJ’s partner in this evaluation was the National Center for Victims
of Crime.
Other ILJ projects on violence against
women have included legislative reviews and other research on sexual assault and
stalking. ILJ has also conducted a national survey of victim services providers
and has produced training publications on assisting victims of crime.
More information on these projects can be
found under
Publications and Projects.
Knights of Kindness
Abuse Laws
YOU CAN STOP
THE PAIN
The best
way for an abuse victim to protect themselves from the abuser is to become
educated about the abuse laws.
Know your rights and
how to get the police and the courts to enforce them. From this site you can
find and print both state and federal abuse laws.
Victims Rights
Becoming a crime victim or witness is a
life-shattering event that affects millions of Americans. The experience can
destroy a person's sense of safety and security and cause devastating harm that
is often difficult to heal. Criminal justice system personnel have a special
responsibility to treat crime victims and witnesses fairly by enforcing their
rights, properly including them in criminal justice system processes, making
referrals to appropriate services, and holding perpetrators accountable. For too
long, the criminal justice system has overlooked the rights and needs of crime
victims and witnesses. In recent years, however, new Federal and State laws have
sought to improve the treatment of crime victims and address their concerns. We
are constantly learning about better ways to assist crime victims and witnesses.
This new version provides guidelines for Department of Justice personnel on how
to treat crime victims and witnesses based on the federal victims' rights laws
and Department policy. Last updated April 19, 2001.
The Mission of
WomensLaw.org is to provide
easy-to-understand legal information and resources to women living with or
escaping domestic violence. By reaching out through the Internet, we empower
women and girls to lead independent lives, free from abuse.As you will see on
these pages, the site publishes state-specific legal information for domestic
violence. It also publishes information on getting help in your community. We
also provide help through email, directly to women and advocates, throughout the
U.S.
If you have a story
of a loved one that has lost the fight against Domestic Violence, please
share
it with us. We would like to continue sharing the
stories in hope that others will see just what Domestic Violence is, a travesty
that must end.
If you are a
Non-Custodial Mother, and would like support, or can share your case file,
please contact
us. You are NOT alone.......
If you are a Victim
or Survivor of Domestic Violence, and you have not received the help that you
needed, or did not gain justice through the courts, please,
let us
know. We must work together to bring about a change,
and the only way to do that is to show the problem.
Enough is ENOUGH!
Together, we CAN and WILL make a difference!
A victim's first scream is
for help: a victim's second scream is for justice."-
Carol Anika Theill
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