Fact sheet details challenges faced by gender-based violence survivors criminalized for self-defense actions or behaviors linked to their abuse.

This memo addresses common misconceptions in programs that prevent effective support and engagement with criminalized survivors of violence.

This memo offers social science literature to explain the link between IPV victimization and substance use/SUD for practitioners working with criminalized survivors.

This memo contains excerpts from social science literature about the impacts of trauma on survivors’ ability to recall the details of traumatic events.

Memo containing excerpts from social science literature about common ways survivors cope with and implement strategies to mitigate the harms of IPV.

Guide for advocates supporting victim-defendants by providing court preparation guidance and suggestions for managing stress with self-care plans.

Brief arguing expert testimony on battering was relevant to defendant’s knowledge that pseudoephedrine purchased for co-defendant abuser would be used to make methamphetamine and to her failure to ask him probing questions.

Brief on review to state supreme court argues to affirm reversal of victim-defendant’s murder conviction due to erroneous jury instruction that “imminent harm” meant that such harm will occur “immediately.”

Brief argues that court erred by excluding lay and expert evidence on battering, which was relevant to explain defendant’s conduct and state of mind, including her suicidality, when she shot batterer in hospital.

Brief argues that counsel was ineffective and defendant was severely prejudiced by counsel’s failure to present lay and expert evidence on battering, which was necessary to assess self-defense elements and rebut misconceptions about battered women.

Brief argues that court erred by permitting jury to conclude that remaining in abusive relationship was proof that defendant "recklessly placed [herself] in the situation" thereby barring her duress defense.

Brief argues that jury should have been instructed on defense of duress and analyzes admissibility and relevance of battering evidence to battered women’s duress claims.