Enhancing Judicial Skills in
Domestic Violence Cases Workshop |
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A Judge Participant in this Workshop Will Be Better Able to:
• Evaluate impact of violence on adult victims and children who witness violence.
• Identify the protection and restoration requirements of domestic violence victims.
• Describe patterns of batterer conduct, assess dangerousness of specific batterers, and impose effective intervention and accountability mechanisms for batterers.
• Resolve difficult evidentiary issues and apply an understanding of domestic violence to judicial fact-finding.
• Identify administrative and community barriers to accessing/achieving justice in DV cases
• Devise methods of overcoming barriers to justice, become motivated to work to remove barriers, and use information regarding available community resources to assist in removing barriers.
• Recognize and apply ethics rules that govern participation in extrajudicial activities, e.g., domestic violence councils, legislative proposals, local court rulemaking, and education programs of non-judge providers.
• Define culture and cultural competence, enhance respect for the dynamics of difference, and identify ways in which culture is relevant in the courtroom.
• Recognize cultural misinformation and avoid assumptions about a person or facts of a situation based on misinformation.
• Identify and evaluate potential biases that might influence courtroom demeanor or interpretation of facts and making of decisions in DV cases.
• Identify common decision-making points where understanding DV might affect how you make decisions and what you decide.
• Draft and issue effective orders that (a) stop violence, (b) protect adult victims & children, (c) require appropriate batterer treatment in criminal and civil DV cases, and (d) facilitate enforcement in DV cases.
• Assess the impact of domestic violence on cases involving sentencing, custody and visitation issues.
• Evaluate batterer intervention programming and information regarding appropriate treatment/intervention options.
• Identify the potential benefits of conducting review hearings (in conjunction w/ probation services) to monitor batterer conduct in DV cases.
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