(Nov 17) This week's site and project updates

[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:

• Change Happens: The SAFER Blog (Blog, USA)
• Research in Action: An Elder Abuse Study Impacts how Law Enforcement Work their Cases (Video, USA)
• SAFER (Students Active For Ending Rape) (USA)
• Stoppavåldtäkterna (Stop Rape) (Sweden)

New online documents added to our Virtual Library:

• 2007 Survey of Law Enforcement Forensic Evidence Processing, The (USA)
• Assessing Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide (USA)
• National Resource Directory & Handbook Preventing Child Sexual Abuse, A (USA)
• Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Limited Effects in New Jersey (USA)
• Sex Trafficking: Identifying Cases and Victims (USA)
• Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics (USA)
• Violence and Victimization Research Division's Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women 1993-2009 (USA)

International Victim Rights Timeline Project

http://www.vaonline.org/timeline.html

I am investigating a variety of timeline presentation software, which will produce online and interactive timelines which should help users find information on the history of victim rights in individual countries, but also aid them in comparing the histories and development of victim rights in multiple countries.  Announcements will be made when test pieces are available for public comment.

Blog Posts

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

http://rmccallonline.wordpress.com/

• Victim Impact Statements and the New Zealand Debate
• News Orleans News Piece on Regional Child Pornography Unit (USA)
• Government Report Confirms News Investigation on Untested DNA Kits (USA)

Twitter News Feed

Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/randymccall

or view the Twitter widget on the VAOnline.org or V3@E home pages

 

• Uganda Victims Foundation statement on International Crimes Bill of 2009 (Uganda) http://bit.ly/3jH3Ma  
• National Crime Victim Law Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report (USA) http://bit.ly/30rvFT
• Council of Europe HR Commissioner: Realizing children's rights requires more than rhetoric (CoE) http://bit.ly/1UZrto
• Sarah Phillips of Victim Support (UK) http://bit.ly/2GCrzp
• Gender-based violence The hidden face of insecurity (Central Americas, Global Geopolitics blog) http://bit.ly/44eL7a
• Familial DNA software may catch on in catching criminals (USA) http://bit.ly/1kbGvr
• Group trains police on human rights policing (Nigeria) http://bit.ly/1XK8TX
• Offenders on the Internet and Social Media Sites (Podcast, Washington DC, USA) http://bit.ly/41wnzc
• Call for domestic abuse register (UK) http://bit.ly/16LDlC
• Colombian human trafficking victims kidnapped and forced to work as prostitutes (Video, ColombiaNews.tv) http://bit.ly/3AyRnK
• State representative wants sexual assault "consent" loophole closed (Georgia, USA) http://bit.ly/1xCXSo
• Child pornography fight gets new weapons imaging software identifies victims, tracks pictures (USA) http://bit.ly/41bivG
• Police: Deputy accused of stalking left explicit messages (Georgia, USA) http://bit.ly/1NXHoc
• Justice Secretary Jack Straw: I want to remove curse of knife crime (UK) http://bit.ly/htLMa
• Regional study finds high rates of abuse against women with disabilities (New York state, USA) http://bit.ly/4gAsXy
• Britain to investigate abuse allegations in Iraq (UK) http://bit.ly/26SJqA
• David Burrowes, MP: We need fundamental change to our criminal justice system (UK) http://bit.ly/1O2PKM
• Justice should be calm and dispassionate (Editorial, New Zealand) http://bit.ly/2uDfQv
• Violent crime costing taxpayers millions (USA) http://bit.ly/21x1VX
• Man free after acquittal in sexual assault sue to sexsomnia (Canada) http://bit.ly/4bEbF5
• Breaking the silence of forced marriages (Canada) http://bit.ly/1TxUEp
• President calls for effective monitoring of domestic violence act (India) http://bit.ly/iV3R3
• Crime victims get shaft (Canada) http://bit.ly/KpsrC
• DNA tool to trace missing kids (Mexico) http://bit.ly/3odO0y
• UK government announces proposal to remove innocent people from DNA database (UK) http://bit.ly/wC6sm
• Victim Impact Statement rules under review after censorship (New Zealand) http://bit.ly/3aEOdc
• Winter Issue of ACCESS: Victims' rights before the ICC (ICC Victim Rights Working Group) http://bit.ly/gac54
• Coalition for the ICC to hold live blogging sessions on trial of Congo warlords (CICC) http://bit.ly/llcks
• Problem-solving courts: Alternatives for communities and offenders (US DOJ) http://bit.ly/3KXGVc
• Kentucky lags in protecting date-violence victims (USA) http://bit.ly/1puZ40
• Demonisation of police main cause of high crime rate says Home Minister (Malaysia) http://bit.ly/3eUvA3
• Rape and the light of the female migrant worker (TIME, USA) http://bit.ly/hiY9U
• Analysis underscores financial burden of mental illness on criminal justice and health care systems (USA) http://bit.ly/4uFYn2
• International Criminal Court Student Network (ICC) http://bit.ly/3Zk5gX
• Crime victim wins 'caution' fight (UK) http://bit.ly/3Ayf8Z
• Untested rape kits lead to more crimes, government study shows (CBS News, USA) http://bit.ly/1MKBbf
• Stalkers now using cell phones to track victims (USA)
• RT @GlobalIntegrity: From Mine to Mobile Phone The Conflict Minerals Supply Chain (PDF) http://bit.ly/4mhOHn #ijc
• Determinants of Trafficking: Understanding the problem and the actors (Human Trafficking Blog) http://bit.ly/WmGST
• RT @UN: Video: NO is NO in any language: http://bit.ly/4bYUO1
• Women get a raw deal from Scots justice, claim MSPs (Scotland, UK) http://bit.ly/1mRyZ5
• Canada’s youth crime laws hailed as example of success (Canada) http://bit.ly/PWvjS
• RT @VAWnet: New Special Collection: Resources Addressing the Perpetration of Sexual Violence (USA) http://bit.ly/2pQWfw
• Greta Bryan helps victims, families as they go through emotional court cases (Mississippi, USA) http://bit.ly/3KtBXq
• Illinois to begin early prisoner release today (USA) http://bit.ly/2TOAyM
• Are we really soft on crime? The Tories prefer tough talk to hard proof on punishment (Macleans, Canada) http://bit.ly/s47cB

• War crime victims wait for justice (Serbia) http://bit.ly/1BCelY
• System for crime victims that tracks prisoners lacks cash to operate (USA) http://bit.ly/1Z0k17
• Abuse, Neglect of Disabled Children (Zambia) http://bit.ly/2B8kDy Witnessing an execution doesn't always bring closure for the victims' survivors (USA) http://bit.ly/3NVbaH

Randy McCall

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