Alaska Administrative Code › Title 22 - Department of Corrections › Chapter 25 - Programs for Rehabilitation of Perpetrators of Domestic Violence › 22 AAC 25.090 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter,
(1)
			 "approved program" means a program approved by the department under this
			 chapter;
(2) "child support
			 services agency" means the agency established in AS 25.27;
(3) "council" means the Alaska Council on
			 Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault;
(4) "department" means the Department of
			 Corrections;
(5) "domestic
			 violence" has the meaning given in
			 AS
			 18.66.990;
(6) "lethality assessment" means an
			 evaluation of the program participant's potential for causing physical injury
			 to another person, considering the participant's domestic violence or
			 psychological abuse toward the participant's most recent domestic partner, the
			 frequency and severity of the domestic violence or psychological abuse, the
			 participant's domestic violence or psychological abuse toward previous domestic
			 partners, the participant's access to weapons, suicidal or homicidal thoughts
			 or ideation, suicide attempts, access to a potential victim, and the status of
			 the participant's relationship with the potential victim;
(7) "victim advocacy agency" has the meaning
			 given the term "victim counseling center" in
			 AS
			 18.66.250;
(8) "personal program participants' records"
			 means records maintained by the approved program for a program participant,
			 including an intake assessment, dates and summary of contacts with the program
			 participant, lethality assessments, records of the participant's compliance and
			 non-compliance with program requirements, and a summary of victim safety
			 checks;
(9) "program" means an
			 individual or an agency operating a community-based intervention program that
			 is designed to prevent the recurrence of domestic violence; "program" includes
			 a program that addresses issues of power and control, the beliefs and values
			 that lead to domestic violence in our society, and a participant's
			 responsibility for domestic violence, but does not include a program solely
			 addressing alcoholism or use of controlled substances;
(10) "program participant" means a person who
			 is a perpetrator of a crime involving domestic violence and who has been
			 ordered to participate in and complete a program for the rehabilitation of
			 perpetrators of domestic violence as a condition of probation, a condition of
			 parole, or a condition of a protective order or domestic violence;
(11) "recidivism" means the verifiable
			 recurrence of domestic violence or a crime against a person under AS
			 11.41;
(12) "substance abuse"
			 includes abuse of alcoholic beverages and controlled substances;
(13) "victim safety check" means a process by
			 which an assessment is made of a victim's risk of danger of domestic violence
			 or psychological abuse from a program participant;
(14) "vulnerable adult" has the meaning given
			 in AS
			 47.24.900.
As of Register 171 (October 2004), and acting under
				  AS
				  44.62.125(b)(6) and sec. 12,
				  ch. 107, SLA 2004, the regulations attorney made technical changes to reflect
				  the name change of the child support enforcement agency to the child support
				  services agency made by sec. 1, ch. 107, SLA
				  2004.
Authority:
AS
				  44.28.020