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Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit

(Fall 2025)

This Toolkit provides ideas, strategies, and techniques for addressing the need and challenges related to making survivors charged with crimes visible and central in a community’s response to domestic and sexual violence, with a particular emphasis on victims of battering charged with crimes.

Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit

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