NEW! VictimLaw Webinar Series

The National Center for Victims of Crime is proud to present a series of 12 free Webinars. Far more than a series of lectures, these Webinars provide personal tours through this innovative resource, guiding attendees through the discrete searches available on VictimLaw. Each Webinar in the series will be designed for the following special audiences and will teach attendees how to get the most out of this valuable and unique database. To view recordings of past webinar programs you must download the webinar player here.

1. January 21, 2010   -- for legislative staff    View Recording
2. January 28, 2010   -- for National Center members    View Recording 
3. February 4, 2010   -- for staff of state Attorneys General    View Recording 
4. February 18, 2010 -- for prosecutors and District Attorneys View Recording 
5. February 24, 2010 -- for librarians View Recording
6. March 4, 2010 -- for friends of the National Center View Recording 
7. March 11, 2010 -- for criminal justice professors and students View Recording 
8. March 18, 2010 -- Train the Trainers View Recording
9. March 25, 2010 -- for students of state victim assistance academies View Recording
10. May 27, 2010 -- VictimLaw: A Legal Resource for Victims of Financial Crime    View Recording
11. June 30, 201 -- VictimLaw's Protective Provisions View Recording

. . . with more to come soon! (About Webinar presenter Chandra L. Middleton.)

Additional materials for the Webinar series include:

• Presentation slides (PDF | Plain Text)
• Transcript of the January 28, 2010 Webinar (PDF | Plain Text)
• Student Resource Guide (PDF | Plain Text)
• Educational Uses of VictimLaw for professors wanting to incorporate VictimLaw into their courses (PDF | Plain Text)
• Training Handout (PDF | Plain Text)

Resources for VictimLaw Trainers, from the Train the Trainer Webinar on March 18, 2010:

• Presentation slides (PDF | Plain Text)
• VictimLaw Homepage Tour with Talking Points (PDF | Plain Text)
• Sample Presentation Slides (PowerPoint | Plain Text)
• VictimLaw Sample Searches (PDF | Plain Text)
• Survey for trainers to fill out to let us know how your trainings went (Word | Plain Text)

About VictimLaw
VictimLaw is the only free, comprehensive, online database of victims' rights-related legal provisions. The database includes statutes, tribal laws, constitutional amendments, court rules, administrative code provisions, and case summaries of related court decisions and is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users with different levels of substantive and technological expertise. Such ready access to information can advance the cause of crime victims' rights by facilitating the exercise, implementation, and enforcement of those rights.