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Robert C. Davis

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Reducing Sexual Revictimization: Technical Report

A Field Test With an Urban Sample

Vera helped develop a brief training to help sexual assault survivors reduce the risk of further assault. The workshop was developed from material that showed promise in reducing victimization in a sample of college women. Using information gained from in-depth interviews with 33 sexual assault survivors of multiple sexual assaults in New York and ...

Robert C. Davis

August 31, 2006

Can Federal Intervention Bring Lasting Improvement in Local Policing?

The Pittsburgh Consent Decree

Federal oversight of local police

Robert C. Davis

Turning Necessities into Virtue

Pittsburgh’s Experience with a Federal Consent Decree

In 1997, the Justice Department for the first time used its power to sue a city over a “pattern or practice” of policing that violated federal law or the U.S. Constitution. The department entered into a five-year consent degree with the city of Pittsburgh that police officials and civil rights groups generally view as a success in terms of increasi ...

Robert C. Davis

August 31, 2002

Effects of State Victim Rights Legislation on Local Criminal Justice Systems

All fifty states, as well as the federal government, now have victim rights legislation prescribing how victims should be treated. In many cases, rights to information about court events, bail release decisions, compensation, and restitution are standard. In spite of great strades that have been made in law, research studies indicate that many vict ...

Robert C. Davis

January 31, 2002

Access to Justice for Immigrants Who are Victimized

The Perspectives of Police and Prosecutors

Employing survey methodology, this research describes the barriers that immigrants encounter in accessing justice, as they emerged from the responses of police chiefs and prosecutors. Criminal justice officials believe that failure to report crimes and to cooperate in their prosecution is a significant problem, especially for domestic violence offe ...

Robert C. Davis

August 31, 2001

Results from an elder abuse prevention experiment in New York City

A significant amount of research has been conducted on ways to reduce abuse against women and children, but very little research has been done on the domestic abuse of elderly persons. The lack of a good understanding of elder abuse and its consequences is worrisome. Virtually all state agencies charged with addressing the problem of elder abuse re ...

Robert C. Davis

The Use of Citizen Surveys as a Tool for Police Reform

Citizen surveys, long used by researchers to test hypotheses about police-citizen interactions, have recently be deployed as a tool for promoting police reform. This paper examines the citizen survey's potential role in creating more accountable and effective police forces, drawing on examples from Chicago, Illinois; Queens, New York; and St. Peter ...

Robert C. Davis

Mediation and Arbitration as Alternatives to Prosecution in Felony Arrest Cases

This is an evaluation of the first year's operation of the Brooklyn Dispute Resolution Center. The work of the Center resulted from joint efforts by the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IMCR) and the Victim/Witness Assistance Project (V/WAP) of the Vera Institute of Justice. The report attempts to convey, in some detail, results of ...

Robert C. Davis

December 31, 1980

Administering Restitution Payments in Brooklyn and Bronx Criminal Courts

Report on the Activities of the Victim Services Agency

This 1980 report evaluates the Victim Services Agency's restitution programs in Brooklyn and Bronx Criminal Courts, which manages cases in which judges order defendants to pay restitution to victims. In both boroughs the programs appeared to have gradually increased the frequency with which court officials order restitution.

Robert C. Davis

September 30, 1980

The Role of the Complaining Witness in an Urban Criminal Court

This 1980 report discusses research done as part of Vera's Victim/Witness Assistance Project (V/WAP) in an attempt to obtain a better understanding of the causes, effects and cures of victim/witness disaffection and noncooperation, problems that remain widespread in urban criminal courts.

Robert C. Davis

December 31, 1979

Providing Information About Prosecution Witnesses

The Effects on Case-Processing Decisions in Criminal Court

This 1979 report analyzes the effects of three types of information provided to courts by the Victim/Witness Assistance Project (V/WAP) when it was made available in a systematic way: (1) informing courtroom prosecutors that a civilian witness, absent on a hearing date, was interested in coming to court at another time, (2) informing prosecutors' s ...

Robert C. Davis

October 31, 1979

The Effects of Witness Information Provided by the Victim/ Witness Assistance Project

This report reviews the results of three studies which examined the impact of several types of witness information provided by the Victim/Witness Assistance Project to the King's County District Attorney's Office and Brooklyn Criminal Court. Each type of information is intended to aid court officials in making decisions in individual cases. One for ...

Robert C. Davis

February 28, 1979

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