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The Battered Women's Justice Project's Criminal and Civil Justice Office offers training, technical assistance, and consultation on the most promising practices of the criminal and justice systems in addressing domestic violence.  Criminal Justice staff can provide information and analyses on effective policing, prosecuting, sentencing, and monitoring of domestic violence offenders.  Civil justice issues include: protection orders, separation violence, divorce and custody, confidentiality, welfare and the Violence Against Women Act, safety planning, and self-sufficiency. 

This site contains all of the events, research and resources from the previous website.  We've also added more information about BWJP's Criminal and Civil Justice Office, its services and trainings in a new and easy-to-navigate format.  Click on the link below for a map of our new site!

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The Criminal and Civil Justice Office is part of a collaboration of several national resources that make up the Battered Women's Justice Project.  The Criminal and Civil Justice Office, along with the Defense Office, provides resources for advocates, battered women, legal and justice system personnel, policymakers, and others engaged in the justice system response to domestic violence.

a project of the Office on Violence Against Women, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services