Civil Protection Orders and Domestic Violence 101

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Civil Protection Orders and Domestic Violence
101
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Pop Quiz True or False

• Domestic Violence is rare?
• The community places responsibility for violence
  where it belongs, on the criminal?

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Domestic Violence

• One in four women and one in seven men will
  experience domestic violence in their lifetime.
• Domestic violence costs the nation an estimated
  5 to 10 billion annually in direct medical and
  mental health care services and lost
  productivity.

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• Each year, many of the millions of victims who
  are battered by their partners look to the civil
  protection order system as a way to stop the
  abuse. In Idaho, over 4,000 Civil Protection
  Orders are filed each year.
• In the act of seeking protection, a victim is
  putting her trust and safety in the hands of
  numerous professionals. Anywhere along that
  complex chain, a victim can find that the promise
  of the civil protection order system is either
  kept, or broken.

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Hand Holding Needed BUTNo time to hold hands.

• Be mindful that Court is a foreign country for
  most customers.
• Emotionally overwhelmed
• Despite clear instructions, many dont get
  it.
• Emotions can impact cognitive function.
• Be mindful of the victim's safety at court.
  Factor in special considerations.
• Stalking behaviors, threats to harm/kill, gang
  drug affiliations of perpetrator, legal process
  (is perpetrator facing a 3rd strike?),
  information released at court as to location of
  victim services.
• If possible bridge victim with domestic violence
  advocate agencies. As a minimum provide a list
  of local domestic violence agencies.
• KEEP IN MIND Clerks are often the first person
  a victim has interaction with at the court and
  maybe the first person they have reached out to
  for help.

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Civil Protection Order Research

• Civil Protection Orders are valuable for helping
  victims regain a sense of well-being
• In the vast majority of cases, CPO deter repeat
  incidents of physical and psychological abuse
• Study participants experienced severe abuse
• Majority of abusive partners have a criminal
  history
• Temp CPO can be useful even if the victim does
  not follow through to obtain a permanent order
• The court process can influence the victims
  active participation in deterring further
  violence
• The Benefits and Limitations for victims of
  Domestic Violence National Center for State
  Courts

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• In addition to increasing safety for victims, CPO
  and the process of petitioning can contribute to
  a victims sense of autonomy
• The CPO becomes an announcement that the abused
  woman refuses to take it anymore and is acting
  on her own behalf
• Studies show that the majority of petitioners
  would seek protection orders again, even though
  some of those petitioners requests were denied
  and others had their orders violated
• For many of these petitioners, the process of
  reaching out for assistance and initiating change
  was a step toward independence

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Updated Brochure and Video

• Both resources explain what a Civil Protection
  Order is, how it differs from a criminal
  no-contact order, how to petition for a
  protection order and other resources that are
  available to help victims of domestic violence
  both are available in Spanish.
• Copies of the brochures and a DVD were mailed to
  every county.
• Please attach the brochure to the paperwork to
  file for a Civil Protection Order that is
  provided to petitioners at your courthouse.
• Copies of this brochure and video were also sent
  to the Domestic Violence Court Coordinators,
  Family Court Coordinators, Court Assistance
  Officers, victim advocacy agencies, and Legal Aid
  Services in your area.

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Video is available at the Supreme Court
Websitehttp//www.isc.idaho.gov/problem-solving/
brochures-videos
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Pop Quiz True or False

• Stress causes domestic violence?
• Drug or alcohol use causes domestic violence?
• Domestic Violence offenders have a mental
  illness?

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Attorney Generals Office offers the Hope Card for
Petitioner's that are granted a Protection Order
that are a year long or more.
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IDAHO SECRETARY OF STATEAddress Confidentiality
Program
If a victim moves to a new location to escape
domestic violence, sexual abuse or stalking, the
Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) can help
keep their new address confidential. This is done
through the use of a mail-forwarding service and
substitute address. In accordance with Title 19,
Chapter 57, Idaho Code, all state and local
agencies are required to accept the substitute
address as the actual address of the individual.
Upon approval of an ACP application, the
victims first-class mail is sent to the secure
ACP substitute address and then forwarded to the
victims new home. They can also use the
substitute address for a variety of state and
local government requirements, such as
Applying for and receiving child support
Getting an Idaho drivers license Enrolling
children in public schools Applying for a
marriage license
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Pop Quiz True or False

1. Domestic violence is about a loss of control?
2. Victims of domestic violence are responsible for
   the violence because they provoked it?

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What is Domestic Violence?
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Characteristics of Domestic Violence

• Emotional Abuse
• Regular criticism, name-calling, put-downs
• Minimized or belittled feelings
• Blaming
• Abusing or threatening children and grandchildren
• Use of intimidation or manipulation as a means of
  control over a victim or his/her children
• Isolation from friends, family, and community
• Threats of "outing" or criticism of sexual
  identity
• Threats to hurt the victim's friends, family, or
  pets
• Control of access to money or transportation
• Repercussions for a victim going where he/she
  wants when he/she wants
• Deportation or immigration status threats
• Prevention from working or attending school
• Harassment at school or work
• Public or private humiliation
• Unsafe or fearful feelings

• Physical Abuse
• Hitting, punching, slapping, kicking, shoving,
  strangling, or biting
• Restraining
• Denial of food, clothing, sleep, or medications
• Use of weapons to hurt or threaten
• Sexual Abuse
• Forceful or un-consensual sexual acts
• Practice or accusations of affairs
• Property Abuse
• Destroying and/or stealing personal belongings
• Hurts, maims or kills pets

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The Cycle of Abuse
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Pop Quiz True or False

• Low self-esteem causes victims to become involved
  in relationships where there is domestic
  violence?
• Domestic violence offenders are angry all of the
  time and people tend to not like to be around
  them?

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Characteristics of Offenders
An abusers primary motivation is to maintain
control over the victim. Abusers are master
manipulators, who employ physical assault in
conjunction with other tactics to achieve their
objective. These tactics prevent victims from
leaving abusive relationships. In addition to
physical assaults or threats, abusers control
tactics may include

• Maintain power control through verbal,
  emotional, psychological, physical and sexual
  abuse
• Minimization
• Denial
• Blame
• Attitude of ownership/sense of entitlement
• Attempt to get others to align with them.
• FREEDOM FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

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Characteristics of Victims of Domestic Violence

• Minimizing or denying the violence
• Taking responsibility for the violence
• Using alcohol or drugs
• Self defense (use of violence)
• Seeking help
• Staying in the abusive relationship.

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Pop Quiz True or False

• Only victims who choose to leave their partner
  can receive services?
• It is easy for a victim of domestic violence to
  leave the relationship?

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Reasons why women stay in an abusive relationship?
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Reasons why women stay in an abusive
relationship

• She loves her partner
• Fear
• Children
• Lack of money
• Her partner loves her
• Law enforcement blames her
• She blames herself
• Fear of losing custody of her children
• Shell become homeless
• No one believes she is being abused
• She doesnt think she is being abused
• Her partner threatens to abuse pets

• Shes isolated
• Shes depressed
• Its not the right time
• Shes never told anyone
• Shes afraid of the unknown
• She feels that there is no help
• Shes tried to leave before
• Her partner found her before

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CAUTION

• The most dangerous time in a domestic violence
  relationship is when the victim is leaving or
  after she has left.
• The risk of experiencing violence increases
  significantly both during and after separation.
  The perpetrator often escalates tactics to exert
  abusive power and control and may punish the
  victim through threats, other acts of violence,
  or child abduction.
• Not only are victims who separate from
  perpetrators of domestic violence significantly
  more likely to be abused, they are also at an
  increased risk for intimate partner homicide.

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Pop Quiz Results
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Thank You

• Amber Moe
• Statewide Domestic Violence Court Manager
• Idaho Supreme Court
• [phone]
• amoe_at_idcourts.net