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The IAFN's Spotlight-on-a-Member Project provides a befitting recognition to some of our forensic nursing colleagues and what motivates their dedication and commitment to forensic nursing.
 Please join the Membership Committee in recognizing Stacy Drake
LOCATION: Houston, Texas, USA
WORK SETTING: University of Texas, School of Nursing & The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
FORENSIC NURSING EXPERIENCE: Stacy has been a forensic nurse since 1996
YEARS OF IAFN MEMBERSHIP: 10+ Years
Click here to learn more about Stacy.
Do you know another IAFN member who is extraordinary? A member who makes a difference in their patients’ lives? Go ahead and nominate them for IAFN’s Spotlight-on-a-Member Project.
Each year, the International Association of Forensic Nurses seeks to honor those who have advanced forensic nursing and enhanced the growth and success of the Association. Help us recognize those who are doing outstanding work in the field of forensic nursing — in the community, classroom, or worldwide. Nominate someone today.
KUTV-TV
Lawmakers are considering an amendment to Utah law that would specifically define strangulation or choking as an aggravated assault-second degree felony.
Advocates for victims of domestic violence support the legislation saying it could save lives because having been choked by a spouse or other intimate partner, puts a victim at high risk of being killed by that partner.
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Deccan Chronicle | opinion
Despite a robust anti-rape campaign spanning over three and a half decades, the perception that all women who complain about rape are “liars” still persists. The struggle has been to counter these anti-women perceptions and shift the focus upon the physical and psychological harm caused to the victim and evolve support mechanisms to help her during her journey of transforming herself from a “victim” to a “survivor”.
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The Atlantic
The link between traumatic experiences and the development of addiction has been well-documented. Edward Khantzian, who originated the self-medication hypothesis of substance abuse, writes that “human emotional suffering and pain” and an “inability to tolerate [one’s] feelings” are at the root of addiction. People may use alcohol, drugs, or gambling to numb or control distress, low self-esteem, anxiety, or depression.
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TechBeat
In November 2016, the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Forensic Technology Center of
Excellence (FTCoE) launched an online
Multidisciplinary Sexual Assault Glossary
that will help
medical, law enforcement, forensic and legal professionals “speak the same language” when
discussing sexual assault. Produced in cooperation with the Center for Nursing Excellence
International (CFNEI), the glossary was developed with input from multidisciplinary subject-matter experts who suggested terms, as well as writing and reviewing definitions. The FTCoE
and CFNEI
used a consensus model to approve content and definitions.
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Mother Jones
In 2013, the Senate voted on whether to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, a 1994 law that aids victims of domestic and sexual violence. In previous years, the law had been reauthorized without difficulty, but this time was different, sparking a year of debates in Congress over a set of additional protections introduced by Democrats. Still, when the measure returned to the Senate for a final vote, the result was overwhelming: 78 senators voted in favor, and just 22 were opposed.
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Michigan Live
Federal crime statistics show Grand Valley State University had 25 sex assaults in 2015. Yet the on-campus Women's Center said it worked with student victims who reported 42 sex assaults.
This gap in the numbers is because the Women's Center has a larger purview when it comes to handling sex assaults being reported by students.
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NSVRC
A
nationally representative survey of high school students has shown for the first
time that students who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual* (GLB) face significant
health disparities. GLB students are shown to have higher prevalence rates for many
violence and high-risk behaviors including bullying, sexual and dating violence, and human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection when compared to their classmates who identify as
straight or heterosexual.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Maryland Senate will consider two bills next week aimed at improving the prosecution of rape cases.
The Senate's Judicial Proceedings Committee gave approved a bill that would change the legal definition of rape so that proving the victim resisted would no longer be required. Prosecutors and advocates for sexual assault victims have argued that the wording of the law makes it difficult to convict rapists.
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Elle
On the heels of new revelations in the sexual assault scandal at Baylor University, Texas could become an unlikely leader in campus anti-rape legislation.
State Senator Kirk Watson, a Democrat, filed five bills this morning that would press schools to report on incidents of assault and encourage students to report the crimes — either through anonymous online tools that the new laws would require universities to set up or to campus police or administrators.
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WCQS-TV
After a newspaper investigation concluded that one-fifth of all sexual assault complaints in Canada were dismissed as "unfounded," or baseless — a far higher percentage than for other types of crime — police forces across the country are revisiting old cases.
In total, police forces are reviewing more than 10,000 rape and assault allegations that were dismissed as "unfounded," The Globe and Mail reports.
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