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Resources by topic area for Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers.For additional information, trainings and materials on the NIC Project go to: Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers.
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          Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers



This page focuses on victim services in corrections, reentry, parole, and probation that occur after an offender has been convicted. Many states provide post-conviction victims' rights such as notification, protection, assistance with restitution, and referrals to crime victim services.

Topic Categories and Resources
The following grey bars are accordions that can be expanded to show a list of "top-shelf" resources that have been hand-picked by our library team around this topic. If you would like additional research assistance on this topic, please contact our help desk. They have access to specialized databases and thousands of resources you won't find online. Click on a grey box below to browse resources in that section.
            
      Accordion    Apology Letters
      
      Apology Letter Resources from Victim Voices Heard
              Accordion    Confidentiality
      
      Victim Service Unit Policies
              Victim Services Policies and Procedures
              Address Confidentiality Program
              State Confidentiality Statutes
              Confidentiality and Sexual Violence Survivors: A Toolkit for Sexual Assault Coalitions
              Survivor Confidentiality and Privacy: Releases and Waivers At-A-Glance
              Frequently Asked Questions on Survivor Confidentiality Releases
              Accordion    Evidence Based Practices
      
      Research Designs in the Real World: Testing the Effectiveness of an IPV Intervention
              Police Departments' Use of the Lethality Assessment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
              Accordion    Exoneration
      
      The National Registry of Exonerations
              Healing Justice
              Accordion    General
      
      Creative Ideas for Institutional and Community Corrections Agencies to Partner with Crime Victim Assistance Organizations and Agencies to Promote 2016 National Crime Victims' Rights Week: Serving Victims. Building Trust. Restoring Hope.

            
      
"From the creation of Victims Committees at ACA (1987), APPA (1991), and APAI (1992) and the establishment of the National Association of Victim Assistance in Corrections (NAVAC, formerly known as NAVSPIC) and the National Institute of Corrections Network of Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers
              Crime, Violence & Victimization Research Division's Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women, 1993-2014

            
      
"For over forty years, NIJ has invested in research on violence against women. This research touches on a wide variety of public safety concerns, including intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, as well as criminal justice challenges, including the
              2015 OVC Report to the Nation, Fiscal Years 2013-2014: Building Capacity Through Research, Innovation, Technology, and Training

            
      
Accession Number
              030186

            "OVC's Report to the Nation summarizes the progress made in upholding crime victims' rights and providing high-quality services to victims, survivors, and communities during fiscal years 2013-2014. The report highlights innovative programs and victim-centered initiatives, summarizes financial
              Offender Reentry: The Value of Victim Involvement [Broadcast]

            
      
This three-hour national discussion and broadcast by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) focuses on the unique opportunities and challenges of including victims in the offender reentry process.
      
  Accession Number
              029682
  
      National Gap Assessment: Prison/Parole Based Post-Conviction Victim Services Report (2021)
              Annotated Bibliography: Male Victims in Underserved Communities (2020)
              Victim Service Program Evaluation (2008)
              A Healing Journey for Alaska Natives
              The Role of Crime Victims and Advocates in Pretrial Justice Reform
              Office for Victims of Crime VSP Web Forum
              Crime Victims and Offender Reentry-National Institute of Corrections
              Victims' Voices for Reform
              Promising Victim-Related Practices Fact Sheet Series
              DNA & Crime Victims: Post-Conviction Testing and Exonerations
              How to Speak to Someone About an Unspeakable Loss
              Study of Victim Experiences of Wrongful Conviction
              National Association of Victim Assistance in Corrections
              Accordion    Juveniles
      
      Resentencing "Juvenile Lifers" How does this affect victims and the parole process? (2016)
              Memorandum Summarizing the Available Screening Tools to Identify Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) (2016)
              Juvenile Offender Information
              Victim Offender Mediation Programs in Texas: A Report Published by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
              Victims as Stakeholders: Research from a Juvenile Court on the Changing Roles of Victims in Restorative Justice
              Juvenile Probationers, Restitution Payments, and Empathy: An Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Based Program in Northeastern Pennsylvania
              Face to face with victims: Boulder County to expand restorative justice
              Accordion    Notification
      
      Evaluation of the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification Program

            
      
Results from an evaluation of Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) programs are presented. “Automated victim notification (AVN) is often touted as an effective and efficient means for providing victims timely and accurate information of their offenders’ court events and
  
      Maine Victims' Notification Statute (2016)
              Sexual Assault Kits (2017)
              Accordion    PREA
      
      The PREA Auditor Handbook: Key Information for the Corrections, Detention, and Law Enforcement Fields (2017)
              Accordion    Parole & Parole Boards
      
      Victims’ Services Best Practices Guide for Parole Board Chairpersons and Members (2018)
              Accordion    Policies & Legal Issues
      
      Ethics in Victim Services. National Victim Assistance Academy (2007)
              Services and Support for Victims and Survivors of Crime
              Fundamentals Of Victims’ Rights: A Summary of 12 Common Victims’ Rights
              National Crime Victim Bar Association
              Voices From the Field: California Victims’ Rights in a Post-Realignment World
              Victims' Pretrial Release Rights and Protections
              Accordion    Restitution
      
      Case Update: State v. Patel
              The Restitution Resource Center
              Victim Restitution Matters
              Financial Support for Victims of Crime: A Quick Guide for Corrections and Community Supervision Officers (2018)
              A Victim's Guide to Restitution (2015)
              Victim Advocates Improve Justice Reinvestment in Nebraska
              Payment Ability Evaluation (2016)
              Ensuring Full Restitution for Crime Victims: Polyvictims as a Case Study in Overcoming Causation Challenges
              National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards
              Restitution Guide
              Accordion    Restorative Justice
      
      An Inventory and Examination of Restorative Justice Practices for Youth in Illinois

            
      
“The goal of this study was to learn the extent to which programs incorporate the components of restorative justice and provide an inventory of organizations implementing programs using restorative justice practices in Illinois” (p. 4). Sections of this report include: key findings; introduction
  
      APPA Perspectives: International Restorative Justice, Special Edition (2021)
              Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes, Second Edition (2020)
              Restorative Justice & Gender Based Violence (2020)
              Annotated Bibliography: The Impact of Restorative Justice Practices (2019)
              Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools, An Updated Research Review (2019)
              Restorative Justice Conferencing Using Face-to-Face Meetings of Offenders and Victims: Effects on Offender Recidivism and Victim Satisfaction: A Systematic Rev...
              'The Public Wants to Be Involved': A Roundtable Conversation about Community and Restorative Justice (2012)
              Accordion    Safety Planning
      
      Safety Planning with Adult Sexual Assault Survivors: A Guide for Advocates and Attorneys
              Privacy & Safety on Facebook: A Guide for Survivors
              Technology Safety Planning with Survivors
              Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Risk Profile (SHARP)
              Accordion    Social Media
      
      Should convicts be on social media? Facebook stands up for prisoner accounts
              Report An Inmate's Account
              Cyberstalking Laws
              Accordion    Statistics & Data
      
      Estimating the Financial Costs of Crime Victimization: Study Delineates Research Needs To Inform Victim Services Policies, Programs (2021)
              Building a National Data Collection on Victim Service Providers: A Pilot Test (2018)
              Crime Survivors Speak: A National Survey of Victims' Views on Safety and Justice (2016)
              2014 Sexual Violence Research Review
              2014 Hate Crime Statistics - Victims
              Accordion    Strategic Planning
      
      Training for Strategic Planning (2016)
              Accordion    Technology
      
      Are service providers using technology to improve services and help crime victims?
              Accordion    Victim Compensation
      
      Realizing the Promise of Crime Victim Compensation: Helping Community Violence Intervention Meet the Needs of Victims
              Accordion    Victim Impact
      
      Victim Impact: Listen and Learn: An Evaluation of the Effects of the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Program on Prisoner Recidivism and Prisoner Behavior

            
      
"This is a report of the evaluation study conducted to examine the effects of the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn program on the behaviors of the prisoners who attended this program. The focus of the data we collected and reported on was on the participants’ behaviors after attending the program but
  
      In Defense of Victim Impact Statements (2009)
              Victim Impact Testimony and the Psychology of Punishment (2003)
              Victim Impact: Listen and Learn - The Case for Evidence-Based Programming
              Victim Impact Statements: Know Your Rights
              Sample Victim Impact Statements
              The Importance of Victim Impact Statements and How To Write One
              This victim impact panel is for young people charged with DUI
              Accordion    Victim Rights
      
      Victims’ Rights Law by State (2013)
              Protecting Crime Victims' Rights
              Rights Enforcement Toolkit
              Victims’ Rights Compel Action to Counteract Judges’ and Juries’ Common Misperceptions About Domestic Violence Victims’ Behaviors
              Victim Resource Map
              Crime Victims' Rights Act
              Victims' Rights Education Project
              Crime Victims Rights in Michigan
              Fundamentals Of Victims’ Rights: An Overview of the Legal Definition of Crime “Victim” in the United States (2011)
              Accordion    Victim Support/Services
      
      Voice of the Victim: A Perspective Spotlight Issue

            
      
This special issue of Perspectives is “is dedicated to promoting innovative programs, policies and protocols that improve crime victims’ rights and services in community corrections” (p. iii). Features of this issue cover: The Power of Information and Notification: A Victim/Survivor’s Perspective
              Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services: Final Report

            
      
“The Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report presents a cohesive and comprehensive framework for strategic change in the victim services field and addresses ways to overcome political, policy, and philosophical challenges in the field. OVC anticipates that this report will catalyze
  
      VOICE - Victim of Immigration Crime Enforcement
              Who Experiences Violent Victimization and Who Accesses Services? (2019)
              Understanding the VOCA Rule Change: A New Opportunity to Help Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention (2017)
              Expanding the Reach of Victim Services: Maximizing the Potential of VOCA Funding for Underserved Survivors (2016)
              Battered Women's Justice Project
              Corrections-Based Services for Victims of Crime
              Violence Against Women Needs Assessment Program
              Bridges to Life
              Victim Services Division, Fiscal Year 2014, Annual Report
              Writing Victim Impact Statements
              Victim and Survivor Rights and Services
              Assessing the Scope and Availability of Services for Human Trafficking Victims Among Georgia's Victims' Services Providers
              Accordion    Videos
      
      If You're a Victim of Crime, Help is Available (2016)
              Accordion    Visitation
      
      Turner v. Safley: High Drama, Enduring Precedent (2008)
              Know Your Rights: Restrictions on Visitation (2005)
              Overton, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. Bazzetta (2003)

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