Family Violence Publications

(* = not available in print format)

Policy

• Criminal Harassment: a Handbook for Police and Crown Prosecutors, 2nd Edition (March 2004) (HTML, PDF)
• The Family Violence Initiative: Year Five Report (PDF)
• Spousal Abuse Policies and Legislation: Final Report of the Ad Hoc Federal-Provincial-Territorial Working Group Reviewing Spousal Abuse Policies and Legislation (HTML, PDF)
• Consultation Paper on Children as Victims in Criminal Justice System*
• Custody, Access and Child Support in Canada - Putting Children's Interests First (Consultation paper)
• Second Federal/Provincial/Territorial Forum on Spousal Abuse Cases (March 2001)

Public Legal Education and Information

Note: If the following PDF documents are not accessible to you, please contact the Family, Children and Youth Section for assistance.

• Factsheets
  • Family Violence Fact Sheet*
  • Spousal Abuse Fact Sheet*
  • Child Abuse Fact Sheet*
  • Abuse of Older Adults Fact Sheet *
  • Dating Violence Fact Sheet *
  • Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children and Youth Fact Sheet *
    
• Reports
  • Family Violence and the Deaf —Legal Education and Information Issues: A National Needs Assessment (HTML, PDF )
  • Making Family Violence Law Information Available to People in Rural Areas: An Inventory of Promising Practices (HTML, PDF )
    
• Booklets / Brochures
  • "Abuse is Wrong in any Language"
    • English (HTML)
    • French (HTML)
    • Chinese (PDF 816K)
    • Spanish (PDF 830K)
    • Punjabi (PDF 722K)
    • Hungarian (PDF 1050K)
    • Serbian (PDF 1032K)
    • Romanian (PDF 1089K)
    • Albanian (PDF 721K)
    • Czech (PDF 1058K)
    • Feedback Form
      
  • Abuse is wrong in any language: A Handbook for service providers who work with immigrant women.
    • English (PDF 4220K)
    • French (PDF 3996K)
      
  • Abuse is Wrong in any Culture for Inuit women
    • English (PDF 933K)
    • French (PDF 113K)
    • Inuinnaqtun (PDF 123K)
    • Inuktitut (PDF 1037K)
    • Labradorimiut (PDF 126K)
      
  • What's Wrong with Spanking — Positive Parenting Tip Sheet (PDF , published by Health Canada)
    
  • Stalking is a crime called criminal harassment (HTML, PDF ) (Feedback Form)
    Criminal harassment is an offence in the Criminal Code. It is harassing behaviour that includes stalking.
    
  • "The Secret of the Silver Horse"
    The Secret of the Silver Horse instructs children that secrets about sexual abuse should not be kept. The story also teaches that if a child tells a teenager or an adult about sexual abuse and that person does nothing, the child should be persistent and tell someone else.

Research

• See the list of research publications on family violence.

Project Funding

• Inventories of funded projects in the area of family violence:
  • 2004-2005
  • 2003-2004
  • 2002-2003
  • 2001-2002

Evaluation

• Lessons Learned from Projects Funded Through the Family Violence Initiative 1998/99 to 2002/03 (HTML, PDF )
  This study takes a retrospective look at a selection of projects that received funding through the Department of Justice Canada (DOJ) interdepartmental Family Violence Initiative (FVI). Between 1998/99 and 2002/03, the DOJ component of the FVI funded approximately 70 projects that addressed a range of family violence issues from a variety of perspectives.
  
• Project Managers' Guide to Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Family Violence Initiative (HTML, PDF )
  This Guide provides an overview of the performance measurement and evaluation requirements for the Family Violence Initiative and
  practical information about how to plan, conduct, monitor and report performance and evaluation information.