(Feb. 9) This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

Updates to our various sites

On the main VAOnline.org website

Viewable at: http://www.vaonline.org/new.html

The following links to organizations or services have been added to our directories:

- After the Trauma (Maryland, USA)

- End Violence Against Women (UK)

- European Conference of Psychology and Law (Facebook Event page, Sorrento, Italy)

- Innocence Project (Facebook, USA)

- Innocence Project (USA)

- National Professional Training Conference on Responding to Crime Victims with Disabilities (Conference, USA)

- Project Innocence of Florida (Blog, USA)

- Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network - RAINN (Facebook group, USA)

- Safe Space (Scotland, UK)

The following links to online documents, articles and handbooks have been added:

- Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System (USA)

- Confronting Evil: Victims' Rights in an Age of Terror (USA)

- Crime profiles and conditional release performance of psychopathic and non-psychopathic sexual offenders (Canada)

- Good Intentions are Not Enough: Four Recommendations for Implementing the Trafficking Victim Protection Act to Better Protect Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States (USA)

- Privacy, Accountability, and the Cooperating Defendant: Towards a New Role for Internet Access to Court Records (USA)

- Private Prosecution and the Victim of Crime (Australia)

- Violence against people with disabilities - in English, Summary Report (Sweden)

- What's Wrong with Victims' Rights in Juvenile Court?: Retributive v. Rehabilitative Systems of Justice (USA)

On the VAOnline.org Fusion Report blog

http://vaonlinefusion.blogspot.com/

- The effects of the economy on crime, justice and victims

- On the use of technology in court: Should plea agreements be publicly available online?

On our Twitter headline news feed

http://twitter.com/vaonline

(USA) Effort to track sex offenders draws resistance:

(USA) States struggle to fund crime compensation   

(Mexico) Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people

(Australia) Australian PM says arsonists guilty of mass murder

(Scotland, UK) Ensuring families of homicide victims killed in the home don't have to pay to clean the property

(USA) Wisconsin County DA wants to keep Facebook sexual assault victims off the stand

(Pakistan) Bangladesh police to launch a victim support centre

(USA) Few crime victims helped by visa law ok'd in 2000

(USA) Victims Use Internet To Help Track Thieves: Web Sites Let Victims Post Details, Search For Suspects

(USA) Iowa minor victims' privacy debated

(USA) Prosecutors, Crime Victims and Exonerees Join Innocence Project in Supreme Court Case

(USA) Virginia Tech University: Sexual assault goes underreported

(UK) A detective inspector explains what happens in cases of rape within families

(Canada) Two children rescued in Ontario child-porn bus

(USA) Massachusetts man freed on child luring charges - High Court refuses to hear case

(USA) Man sends help to teen talking suicide on webcam

(Canada) Study shows psychopaths charming their way out of prison

(Pakistan) Acid attack victims suffer in silence

(USA) Tennessee juvenile crime victims' information at risk

(New Zealand) Essay helps man avoid domestic violence conviction -- no apologies, man blames upbringing

(European Union) Children should not be treated as criminals

(Ghana) Dovvsu 'Child Help Line' ends up charging callers, with limited area coverage

(Syria) First shelter for trafficked people opens in Damascus

(USA) Special Report: Options available to military victims of sexual assault

(Ireland) Rise in calls to crime victim helpline

(Samoa) Call by victim support group for Samoa parole programme to be kept

(USA) Violence at work takes worker toll

Randy McCall

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