[PDF] Top 20 Supporting victims and witnesses with a learning disability

... involve victims and witnesses who have a learning ...for victims and witnesses who have mental health issues published in the Publications section on our website at ...a learning ... See full document

... many victims they have contacted, or how many referrals they have ...of supporting victims to (a) cope with the immediate impacts of crime and (b) recover from the harm experienced was ... See full document

... for supporting vulnerable witnesses, for example the 1988 Criminal Justice Act established the admissibility of closed circuit television or video evidence with child witnesses, and subsequent ... See full document

... and victims are a particularly vulnerable group in court ...of witnesses and vic- tims is significantly lower for domestic violence ...and victims, it was deemed appropriate to investigate the ... See full document

... of disability and womanhood-with two ‘minority’ identities, a double dose of discrimination and stereotyping and multiple barriers to achieving their life ...the disability rights movement, and the civil ... See full document

... • A specific learning disability that affects reading and related language- based processing skills. Dyslexia is sometimes referred to as a Language- Based Learning Disability[r] ... See full document

... to victims, types of crime, victim demographics, assistance with accessing the ACJC Crime Victim Assistance Program, and utilization of volunteers in their ... See full document

... Abstract: Learning disabilities (LDs) represent the largest group of disabilities in higher education (HE) institutes, including medical schools, and the numbers are continuing to ... See full document

... against disciplining a child for age-appropriate be- havior, such as exploring their environment or spill- ing their milk. When children knowingly misbehave, parents and others must be as consistent as possible, and when ... See full document

... communication needs and the expertise and specialism of the RI (Ministry of Justice, 2015). Evaluations of the Witness Intermediary Scheme have been positive. Discussions with witnesses and their families, as well ... See full document

... Abstract. All this time, a second victimization in a criminal justice system is considered to be an identical problem for the victims of crime. Thus, it is fair if the whole assessment is more oriented to the ... See full document

... SVM is a supervised machine learning algorithm which can be used for both regression and classification. SVM is a discriminative algorithm in a sense that it is defined by constructing a hyperplane or a set of ... See full document

... a learning disability, the LeDeR report and campaigns such as Mencap’s Treat me well, demonstrate that in practice this isn’t always the ...mandatory learning disability training for all ... See full document

... of victims of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation – such as male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), victims of elder abuse, victims of abuse by carers, victims of parent ... See full document

... Garry et al. (2008), utilizing a presentation “trick” (Mori, 2007), presented two different versions of a criminal event to co-witness pairs simultaneously, and then had the witnesses discuss what they had seen. ... See full document

... weight, disability type, use of assistive devices, presence of behavioral prob- lems, history of seizures, medication at school, and previ- ous season play experience) were collected from each ath- lete at the ... See full document

... A significant number of the recommendations have been achieved. We now know how many people are in inpatient settings, where they are and who is responsible for them. NHS England has introduced Care and Treatment Reviews ... See full document

... With the diversity in the backgrounds of students currently entering universities, many students lack the preparedness to undertake studies that include quantitative content. At the same time, many of these students are ... See full document

... All participants responded that they did not feel safe at home while growing up due to different forms of violence in the environment. 55% of participants both male and female have been brutally beaten as a child on ... See full document

... If you have, or think you may have, a disability (including an ‘invisible disability’ such as a learning disability, a chronic health problem, or a mental health condition) that interf[r] ... See full document