Justice Solutions
A Web Site By Crime Victim Professionals for Crime Victim Professionals
Video History of the Crime Victims’ Field Now Available Online
The Oral History of the Crime Victim Assistance Field is now available online at http://www.vroh.uarkron.edu. The website offers users more than 60 hours of video clips which encompass the first hand accounts of more than 50 of the field’s history-making pioneers. The website and video archive represent the world’s most comprehensive and extensive archive of its kind anywhere in the world.
The project, nearly six years in the making, was developed by Justice Solutions (a national non-profit) in partnership with the University of Akron under a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
The video clips are actual interviews with trail-blazing pioneers and pillars in the victims’ rights and assistance field and include “panel interviews” with the original President’s Task Force members and past Directors of the Office for Victims of Crime
For each interviewee, the project has created a “personal page” that includes a summary of the interview along with a transcript of the interview in its entirety. The transcript is designed to allow the user to directly link to any specific spot in the video interview, just by clicking on any paragraph within the transcript.
You can access transcripts by interviewee or you can use the internal search engine to search all interviewee transcripts by key word. For example, if you are interested in learning about the passage of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), you can search by key word “VOCA” and the search engine will identify each transcript that includes that word. Then, by going to the transcript(s) identified, you can search for VOCA within that transcript and the search engine will take you to each paragraph where the word appears.
This online video archive is housed and maintained by the University of Akron, which serves as the host university for the entire historical archive and collection. Apart from the online version of the video archive, the University also hosts an on-site version available to visitors at the University of Akron’s library archive. The on-site version features full screen video viewing and allows users to burn entire video interviews onto DVDs for off-site use.
The library archive is also developing a “hard-copy” collection, which contains documents of historical significance to the crime victims’ field—all of which will be cataloged and made available to users on the same basis as all library holdings.
We invite you to explore the entire site and encourage you to make use of the site and its information for any other educational purposes.
If you have any questions about the website or other aspects of the archive, or would like to discuss how you might use this unique resource, please feel free to contact David Beatty, Project Manager at dbeatty@justicesolutions.org.
In a recent announcement to Justice Solutions’ “Monday Mentoring Missives” listserv, our members were informed of the availability of the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn videotape developed by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), U.S. Department of Justice, to provide highly personal insights into the impact of crime on victims. Target audiences for the videotape include adult and juvenile offenders, victim advocates, allied justice professionals and community members.
“Victim Impact: Listen and Learn” Discussion Guide
Now Available
The Victim Impact: Listen and Learn videotape features powerful vignettes of 14 victims/survivors sharing their experiences—how they were victimized, the short- and long-term impact of their victimization on themselves, as well as their families and friends, and their suggestions for holding offenders accountable for their crimes. A range of types of victimization is presented by victims/survivors who are diverse by age, gender, culture and geography.
Justice Solutions has created a Discussion Guide that offers questions for individual or group responses, based upon each victim’s experiences and commentary. These are intended to encourage positive discussions among viewers, and encourage them to focus on the impact that crime has on victims, their families, and communities.
Simply click on WHAT to access your copy of the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Discussion Guide.
The video/DVD can be ordered from the NCJRS web site at www.ncjrs.gov. Select Publications/Products from the top of the page and then click on the “V” to be taken directly to the “Victim Impact: Listen and Learn” link. The DVD order number is NCJ 202905 and the VHS order number is NCJ 202904. There is a $12.25 fee, per copy, which includes shipping and handling.
We hope this important resource will be beneficial to you in your efforts to promote greater awareness of the impact of crime on victims.Click here to read the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Videotape Discussion Guide Introduction
Click here to access the Victim Impact: Listen and Learn Videotape Discussion Guide in . pdf form.
National Crime Victim Advocates Promote Cell Phones as a Safety Tool
“Put It On ICE”September 1, 2005, Washington, D.C.
Cellular phones can be a powerful tool to promote individual and community safety, particularly in times of personal emergency or national disasters. Advocates for victims of crime, led by the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization Justice Solutions, urge all cellular phone users in America to “put it on ICE” – “in case of emergency” – and include pertinent contact information for family members and other emergency contacts in their cell phone’s address book or directory.
The “ICE Campaign” was first initiated by Bob Brotchie of Great Britain’s East Anglian Ambulance Service in April of 2005. The simple concept was in response to the need for first responders to a crisis or disaster to be able to save valuable time in contacting family members and friends of someone who is in crisis, injured or deceased.
There are over 150 million people in America who own cell phones. In cases of emergency, first responders – including police, fire officials, paramedics, or concerned citizens – seek critical, timely and sometimes life-saving contact information by scrolling through cell phone directories for the telephone numbers of family or friends.
Click here for complete article and details regarding the "ice" program.
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