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Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Overcoming Challenges in Battered Women’s Self-Defense Cases

When Community-Based Advocates Testify as Experts: Understanding and Explaining Trauma and its Effects

Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Immigration Proceedings

Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Tips to Help Prepare for your First Case

Advocates as Expert Witnesses: Weighing Benefits and Drawbacks

Domestic Violence Expert Testimony: Legal Settings and Issues

The Use of Expert Testimony on Battering and Its Effects in Criminal Cases: Examining Case Law from 1994-2016

Working With Battered Women in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Battered Women’s Advocates

https://www.ncdbw.org/advocacy-services-victim-defendants

Issues to Consider When Facilitating Groups with Battered Women in Jail or Prison

A Toolkit for Systems Advocacy on Behalf of Victims of Battering Charged with Crimes

NRCDVF Brand and Website Redesign – RFP

 Request for Proposal: Website Redesign & Development  This RFP is for design and development services for a new brand and…

Myths and Misconceptions: Criminalized Survivors

by the National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors October 2023 Myths and misconceptions about domestic violence and victims of intimate…

BWJP 2022 Impact Report  

Dearest Friends of BWJP,  We’ve been busy! In the last eighteen months, we have experienced a significant transformation and many…

How Organizations Can Support Staff Who Are Survivors of GBV  

Supporting survivors of intimate partner violence in the workplace is crucial for their physical and emotional well-being. Providing them with…

NLCCDV and How Survivor Mothers Have to Navigate Family Court 

by the National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence Survivors of intimate partner violence who are also mothers face…

Evidence of Battering and the Defense of Duress

by the National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors March 2023 Lay and expert evidence on battering and its effectsi is…

Safety Envelope: NCPOFFC

 The National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit (NCPOFFC), a project of the Battered Women’s Justice Project…

NCPOFFC Full Faith and Credit Matrix

Updated July 2022  This document is for informational purposes only. Nothing contained in this document is intended as legal advice…

Firearms and Domestic Violence: A Summary of Pivotal Cases Decided by the United States Supreme Court

by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms January 2023 This resource contains summaries of significant Supreme Court…