Successful Prosecution of Intimate Violence: Making it Offender-Focused

Offender-focused prosecution is a strategy that emphasizes the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender in crimes of intimate violence. It challenges biases and assumptions about the victims and provides practical information and techniques for investigators and prosecutors to construct and present offender-focused cases. The book is intended for investigators, prosecutors, paralegals, victim advocates, judges, and others involved in the criminal justice system.

Format: Hardback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offender-focused prosecution is a legal approach that concentrates on the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender in cases of intimate violence. In such cases, investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys often focus on the behavior of the victim to prove or disprove the case. However, when faced with uncooperative victims, challenging facts, or attacks on the victim's credibility, prosecutors can feel helpless.

Nevertheless, when the prosecution can rely on evidence and offender-focused interviewing, investigation, and case construction, there is a greater chance of success. This book aims to provide investigators and prosecutors with concrete information and techniques to construct and present offender-focused cases in crimes of intimate violence.

In the first section, the book will challenge the readers' biases and assumptions about intimate violence, providing information that will dispel pervasive myths and misinformation. It 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.

This book is primarily intended for investigators or prosecutors, but it will also be accessible to paralegals, victim advocates, judges, and others involved in the criminal justice system to utilize. By focusing on the offender and understanding their motivations, investigators and prosecutors can better protect victims and ensure that justice is served.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367640293