(Nov 3) This week's site and projects update

[Randy McCall]

The following updates have been made to our various sites:

VAOnline.org

http://www.vaonline.org/

New links added to our topical Directories:

• Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Commission for Victims and Survivors (Ireland)
• Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime (Ireland)
• Crime Victims with Disabilities Blog (USA)
• CUE North Carolina Center for Missing Persons (USA)
• DC Public Safety Podcast Radio Shows - Victim Services podcast listing (USA)
• Elderly People, Women and Children - Victims of Crime: Comparison and Exchange of European Experiences (European Union)
• International Criminal Court YouTube Channel (videos, ICC)
• OSCE POLIS - Policing OnLine Information System (International)
• Victims of Crime Office (Ireland)

New online documents added to our Virtual Library:

• Elderly People, Women and Children - Victims of Crime: Comparison and Exchange of European Experiences (European Union)
• Family Violence in Canada - 2009 (Canada) 
• History of the Child Pornography Guidelines, The (USA)
• Out of Trouble - Making Amends: restorative youth justice in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)

 

Blog Posts

V3@E (Victim services, rights and victimology on the Internet) blog

http://rmccallonline.wordpress.com/

• V3@E expanding media coverage
• Media reports say UK Victims Champion to issue revolutionary report
• V3@E introduces an interactive timeline reader
• International news of note (Egypt, Korea, YouTube)

Twitter News Feed

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• Interested in CICC and ICC news and events? Read the latest CICC Bulletin
• Watchdog worries elder abuse underreported (California, USA)

• INTERVICT (International Victimology Institute Tilburg) newsletter now available (Netherlands)

• State policies for DNA databases may vary widely - Interactive Map (Science Progress, USA)
• Dallas police to collect DNA from prostitutes, creating DNA bank for use if they go missing (Texas, USA)
• Chinese court gives light sentence for rape, as it was a "temporary crime"; raises ire (WSJ China Realtime Report)
• The Northern Ireland Court Service and Restorative Justice Reports (Human Rights in Ireland blog)
• Experts call for support on sex crime victims (Korea)
• Victim Support volunteer of the year (UK)
• Egypt: Sexual harassment law coming? (Egypt)
• King Abdullah endorses project to spread human rights culture (Saudi Arabia)
• Human rights groups says Zimbabwe diamonds used to fuel conflict, calls for suspension from KPCS (Zimbabwe)
• Putting victims at the heart of justice - young offenders and restorative justice (UK)
• More details on Victims' commissioner's calls for major law and order reform in first report (UK)
• Bombings place unique burden on Iraq's 1st DNA lab (Washington Post)
• Victim Champion to call for new service, assessing people by vulnerability, not the seriousness of the crime (UK)
• Shelters for victims of dating violence financially strapped (Japan)
• Parents of Richmond high school rape victim call for community peace, not vengeance (USA)
• Media aren't the best friends of human rights (Canada)
• Don't execute killer, slain El Cerrito couple's son says (California, USA)
• Chile declares day to honor victims of dictatorship (Chile)
• Abuse network ringleaders jailed (Video and text, BBC, Scotland)
• CBC Radio hosts Canadian Cold Case program (Canada) http://bit.ly/3phY7d5:52 AM Oct 31st from TweetDeckU.S. Supreme Court to review Sex Offender residency laws (USA)
• Child Pornography: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Text and video news report examines this question (Nevada, USA)
• Ninth Circuit adopts national standard for Internet obscenity (volokh Conspiracy blog)
• Should crime victims have the right to be heard on Federal Sentencing Guidelines issues? (Volokh Conspiracy blog)
• Ending domestic violence: crazy love (US DOJ blog)
• V3@E expanding media coverage (V3@E victim trends in the media blog)
• Do victims' pleas make an impact on criminals in the dock? (UK):
• Assembly passes five bills protecting domestic abuse and sexual assault victims (Wisconsin, USA)
• President says violence against women and children the worst form of human rights violation, promises aid (Zambia)
• Israeli study: Rape more traumatic than terrorism (Israel)
• Government decides to fully implement the European Convention on the Compensation of Victims of Violent Crimes (Turkey)
• U.S. may be open to asylum requests for victims of spousal abuse (USA):
• Justice Secretary under fire - admits he had not read a report on Scotland's largest known paedophile network (UK)
• James P. Lynch has been nominated as new Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, US DOJ (USA)
• Residents say police tell them to move from crime-ridden neighborhood, if they don't like it (USA)
• US Ambassador for War Crimes says it is unlikely US will join ICC anytime soon (USA)
• Free webinar: Can You Predict Lethal Intimate Partner Violence? Nov 12 (USA)
• RT @whiteribbon: Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2009
• Federal Ombudsman: On combating child sex abuse, the Internet, and the positive effects of advocacy centres (Canada):
• Research says TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system (USA)
• Media should responsibly highlight plight of domestic violence victims (Ireland)
• Scottish Crime and Justice survey: Victim Support Scotland comments (Scotland, UK)
• Sidestepping Immigration to focus on solving crimes (Change.org)
• No Accountability Why are bad prosecutors so rarely punished? (Reason.com)
• Market research company wins contract to help police improve in dealing with victims of crime (Yorkshire, UK)
• Sentencing errors will leave former inmates unsupervised; some probation violators to be released (Ohio, USA)
• Scottish crime victims suffer in silence because they lack confidence in police (UK)
• Crime victims are 'being failed' top legal expert says (UK)

Randy McCall

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