Public Intersection Project
Sexual and Domestic Violence
Publications
Leaders of a School of Government project building communities’ capacity to stop sexual assault and domestic violence describe the reach of the problem and the need for shared responsibility in addressing it.
The report assesses how or whether organizational structure affects the provision or reporting of sexual assault services in both single program and combined sexual and domestic violence programs
This bulletin provides a resource for judges and lawyers involved in sexual assault cases based on conduct before 2001, and includes a chart listing the most commonly charged offenses in sexual assault cases and showing how those charges evolved over the years between 1950 and 2000. The bulletin also describes the major sentencing regimes that existed before Structured Sentencing.
This bulletin addresses two of the most common special evidentiary issues in sexual assault cases: the admissibility of evidence about the complainant's sexual history and the admissibility of evidence of prior sexual misconduct by the defendant.