Total Credits: 1.5 including 0.0 Ethics CLE, 0.75 Ethics CLE, 1.5 CLE
Change is constant and a widespread social movement is actively generating change in our cultural and social institutions. The criminal justice system is both a core target and a necessary participant in this drive for equitable and responsible change. This presentation discusses both the commitment to prosecutorial professional ethics and the model practices that can assist prosecutors in building mutual trust and respect with survivors/victims. Learning from history while generating societal confidence in a changing criminal justice system is a realistic goal. The action plan begins with each of us.
| Using Ethics and Communication During Social Reform (3.3 MB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Colleen Hendricks, the third member of AZCVRLG, is a victim advocate with 42 years of experience and commitment to advocating for and assisting crime victims. Ms. Hendricks has directed a comprehensive 24/7 victim service agency, been a victim compensation administrator, created the first university accredited crisis intervention/crime victimization course in the United States for Northern Arizona University – making it a core class for social work and elective for criminal justice, nursing, and education majors. For fifteen years, as Adjunct Professor at NAU, she brought together students, professionals, and community members, many volunteering with her agency. Ms. Hendricks was an active member of the committee that wrote the original legislation for the Arizona Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights and was on the Arizona Victim Rights Implementation Committee. Ms. Hendricks has been an investigative and prosecutorial subject matter expert and victim trauma specialist and trainer with AZ POST and CA POST, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, FDLE, and trained crisis response and victimology with response for NOVA, OVC, CA OCJP, and in private practice throughout the country. Ms. Hendricks was an on-site OVC/NOVA responder to 9/11 and has served on many criminal justice-oriented committees, boards, and state appointed positions, including assigned as Victim Rights faculty advisor to the Arizona Supreme Court when the AZ Victim’s Bill of Rights Initiative passed in 1990.
Randall Udelman has been an attorney in private practice for over twenty-five years in Arizona. In addition to running a separate private civil practice, he has been a victim rights attorney for the past ten years and has been President of a victim rights organization the Arizona Crime Victim Rights Law Group for the past three years. His organization services crime victims by providing them with legal and social victims work through the criminal justice system.
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