Policy brief on how prosecutors should handle intimate partner violence in smaller jurisdictions

Maybell Romero, Jon Tunheim and Chantelle Williams have published a policy brief with the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, which has a new series called the "Beyond Big Cities Initiative."  The title is "Intimate Partner Violence:  A Best Practice Guide for Prosecutors in Smaller Jurisdictions."  Here's the Introduction to the brief, which is available in full here.  

Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts people irrespective of income, education, and geography. In the United States, one in five homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner, and over half of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former male partner. Over 10 million women and men continue to experience IPV each year. 

IPV is an age-old social concern that continues to torment millions of people across the nation. With this sobering reality in mind, the IIP’s Beyond Big Cities members came together to discuss their experiences with IPV cases. These conversations highlighted successful approaches to combating IPV in smaller communities, revealed unique challenges that rural communities face relating to IPV, and explored innovative responses to IPV. This document provides a survey of IPV prosecution in smaller jurisdictions, particularly rural ones, based on research and information that Beyond Big Cities members provided to the authors.

The brief closes with a checklist for developing a family justice center in a smaller jurisdiction.  

My own work on domestic violence in rural contexts is here and here.  The former is cited in this new policy brief, though my own work is now quite outdated (from 2008 and 2007).