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Course Purposes
Course Purposes
This website is a comprehensive educational resource about the nature, prevalence, and impact of intimate partner sexual abuse intended to inform courts’ response to this issue in whatever type of proceeding it arises. The course has the following overarching goals:
- Familiarize judges with the characteristics and dynamics of intimate partner sexual abuse and the implications for civil, criminal, family, juvenile and probate courts.
- Demonstrate the importance of including intimate partner sexual abuse in assessing risk to protect victims, their children and the community.
- Review the historical foundations, evolving law and currently emerging legal framework for adjudicating intimate partner sexual abuse.
- Provide judges with the practices and tools courts may use pre- and post- adjudication to identify intimate partner sexual abuse, assess risk and protect victims, their children, and others
- Provide judges with the practices and tools course may use to seat an unbiased jury in intimate partner sexual abuse cases.
- Enable judges to apply the rules of evidence in intimate partner sexual abuse cases.
- Support the crafting of comprehensive dispositions in civil, criminal, family, juvenile and probate cases involving intimate partner sexual abuse..
- Enable judges to assess the capability of batterer intervention and sex offender programs to address intimate partner sexual abuse and determine appropriate sanctions and treatment for offenders
- Demonstrate how, within the code of judicial conduct, judges can be leaders in developing an effective justice system and community response to intimate partner sexual abuse.
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