Archived Publications

• REENTRY: Bringing Victims and Victim Service Providers into Reentry Planning in New Jersey (2005)

  Offenders are released from prison in record numbers, and the majority return to their communities burdened by complex problems. In response to these challenges, fresh approaches to reentry have begun to emerge--most notably, multi-agency, multidisciplinary partnerships--including approaches that actively involve victims and victim service providers. This report recounts the conclusions of a series of focus groups in New Jersey attended by pracitioners (victim advocates and other service providers) and victims (homicide survivors and domestic violence victims). Read the Report.

• Project Roadmap: Charting a Course for Crime Victims in Maryland (2003)

  This final report of the National Center's assessment of victims services in Maryland for the Governor's Office on Crime Control and Prevention contains 41 specific recommendations for improving Maryland's response to victims of crime. While written specifically for Maryland, many of the findings and recommendations have broader applicability. Read the Report.

• Bringing Victims into Community Policing (2002)

  Developed by the National Center for Victims of Crime and the Police Foundation under a grant from the COPS office of the U.S. Department of Justice, this 105-page publication provides "first responder" guides to dealing with specific types of crime victims; a model policy for the prevention of repeat victimization; and the benefits of developing relationships between the police, crime victims, and victim organizations. Read the Guide.

• Talk Show Guidelines for Crime Victim Guests

  In response to the concern that crime victims are being re-victimized during their appearances on television talk shows, the National Center for Victims of Crime has developed these specific guidelines alerting television talk show staff to the specific needs of crime victims. Included with the Guidelines are the "Guests' Bill of Rights." Read the Guidelines.

• Promising Practices and Strategies for Victim Services in Corrections (1997)

  This compendium is designed to provide the reader with a high level overview of the most essential components of corrections-based victim services. It contains three texts that are designed to help adult and juvenile correctional agencies develop and enhance services for victims of crime. View compendium.

• Impact Statements - A Victim's Rights to Speak...A Nation's Responsibility to Listen (1994)

  A comprehensive final report providing national legislative recommendations; individual criminal justice agency protocol addressing the distribution, collection and implementation of victim impact statements within all criminal justice agencies, i.e., investigative, prosecutorial, judicial, probation, corrections and parole; a review of current Federal and state statutes allowing for the submission of victim impact statements at sentencing and parole hearings; model victim impact statements; and practical tips to enhance victim impact statement program services to elderly, disabled, non-English speaking, culturally diverse and child victims. Read the report (available electronically from the OVC Archive)

• Rape in America: A Report to the Nation (1992)

  A groundbreaking study on forcible rape, including data on rape frequency in America, statistics on victims’ reports to police, the impact of rape on victims’ mental health, and the effect of media disclosure of victim identities affects reporting of rape to law enforcement. Read the Report.