Successful Prosecution of Intimate Violence

<p>Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions decisions choices and motivations of the offender. Crimes of intimate violence tend to compel investigators prosecutors and defense attorneys to fixate on the victim’s behavior to prove or disprove a case. Prosecutors can become helpless when faced with uncooperative victims challenging facts or attacks on the victims’ credibility. However when the prosecution can rely on evidence and offender-focused interviewing investigation and case construction there is a greater chance of success.</p><p>This book will offer investigators and prosecutors concrete information and techniques to construct and present offender-focused cases in crimes of intimate violence. First we will challenge the reader’s biases and assumptions about intimate violence providing information that will dispel pervasive myths and misinformation we maintain. We will explain the motivations and techniques that offenders use on their victims to ensure the victims’ silence compliance and resistance to prosecution. The second section will address specific steps that investigators and prosecutors can take for offender-focused prosecution including interviewing practices conducting evidence-based investigations selecting and preparing a jury and building an offender-focused prosecution through the case. The reader will be offered practical and attainable practices and skills.</p><p>This book will be primarily intended for investigators or prosecutors. However it will be accessible to paralegals victim advocates judges and others involved in the criminal justice system to utilize.</p>