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Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Overcoming Challenges in Battered Women's Self-Defense Cases

Provides expert testimony tips and strategies for defense teams to secure fair outcomes in battered women's self-defense homicide cases.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Overcoming Challenges in Battered Women's Self-Defense Cases page

Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Immigration Proceedings

Provides practice tips, immigration law info, a sample expert report, and citations for experts/attorneys representing interpersonal violence victims in immigration proceedings.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses: Immigration Proceedings page

Domestic Violence Expert Testimony: Legal Settings and Issues

Provides experts with basic information on the role of domestic/sexual violence expert witnesses, types of testimony, and court system mechanics.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Domestic Violence Expert Testimony: Legal Settings and Issues page

Advocates as Expert Witnesses: Weighing Benefits and Drawbacks

Guide for domestic and sexual violence organizations on deciding whether to offer expert witness services and how to maximize benefits.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Advocates as Expert Witnesses: Weighing Benefits and Drawbacks page

Working with Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community Based Advocates

Manual with strategies for community-based advocates to provide effective support to incarcerated victims of battering, updated July 2025.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Working with Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community Based Advocates page

Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit

Toolkit offering strategies to center survivors charged with crimes within a community's response to domestic and sexual violence.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit page

Facilitating Enforcement of Protection Orders: Registration of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Orders 2025

This technical assistance bulletin offers the best strategies for advocates assisting victims with the registration of protection orders.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Facilitating Enforcement of Protection Orders: Registration of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Orders 2025 page

Tipsheet: Working with Survivors on Probation and Parole

Tipsheet highlighting practical strategies for community advocates to help survivors successfully complete probation or parole supervision.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Tipsheet: Working with Survivors on Probation and Parole page

Basic Propositions: Manipulation of the Criminal Legal System as a Tool of Control

A criminal conviction can shift power dynamics, enabling abusers to use a survivor's record to ensure negative consequences.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the Basic Propositions: Manipulation of the Criminal Legal System as a Tool of Control page

What Lawyers Should Know about Battered Woman Syndrome

Correctly applied Battered Woman Syndrome evidence counters misconceptions, leading to fairer outcomes for criminalized survivors of domestic violence.

Organization
BWJP
Legal & Alternative Justice
Link to the What Lawyers Should Know about Battered Woman Syndrome page

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