A report released today by The Sentencing Project and the Survivors Justice Project offers guidance to states on creating a more trauma-informed approach to sentencing practices for survivors of intimate partner violence, family abuse, and trafficking.
Related to: Sentencing Reform, Gender Justice
Washington, DC — Histories of abuse are commonly reported among incarcerated people, particularly women, and when those experiences influence their involvement in crime, they are typically not accounted for by courts. A report released today by The Sentencing Project and the Survivors Justice Project offers guidance to states on creating a more trauma-informed approach to sentencing practices for survivors of intimate partner violence, family abuse, and trafficking.
“Despite the criminal legal system’s purported goal of securing justice for crime victims, survivors of domestic violence and trafficking are instead often arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned,” said Liz Komar, Sentencing Reform Counsel at The Sentencing Project, and a co-author of