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Identifying & Accounting for Gender Bias in your Team
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Laura Goodman and Anton Tripolskii (BWJP) presented training to the Palm Beach County Sexual Assault Response Team and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on gender bias in policing, including the following learning objectives:
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Laura Goodman and Graham Barnes recently worked in partnership with Global Rights for Women and the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project to present training to advocates and criminal justice professionals in Melbourne and Brisbane Australia on a coordinated community response to gender-based violence . They also showed the film With Impunity: men and gender based violence and led a discussion about the film.
This training is designed for law enforcement officers and other interveners who respond to domestic violence calls and focuses on the challenges officers face in centralizing victim safety. The presentation covers the importance of leadership in police departments and their role in a CCR.
Learning Objectives:
This training is designed for law enforcement officers and other interveners who respond to domestic violence calls and focuses on the challenges officers face in centralizing victim safety. The presentation covers the importance of leadership in police departments and their role in a CCR.
Learning Objectives:
- Increase officers’ skills and ability to handle one of the most common and complicated calls in police work: the domestic violence call.
- Help officers and interveners to understand the complex relationship between the offender and the victim and the highly volatile nature of these cases.
- To assist officers and interveners in understanding the importance of law enforcement working collaboratively with agencies in the criminal justice system.
- To describe ways that law enforcement plays a central role in providing safety to victims, holding offenders accountable and changing the climate of tolerance for domestic violence.
- To provide skills for interveners to work effectively to ensure victim safety.
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Wisconsin Batterers Treatment Provider Association (WBTPA) Conference
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Interventions to Community Deterrence: Lessons Learned presented by Michael Paymar
Michael Paymar’s keynote address focused on the early days of the Battered Women’s Movement and development of Batterer Intervention Programs. Michael examined the often complex history of the various responses by law enforcement, the criminal and civil justice systems, advocacy, and counseling programs as intervention strategies. He will explore the ongoing controversies of counseling approaches for court-mandated offenders, research, successes and failures, victim safety, and accountability.
Michael share personal stories about the process of change for men who batter from his work at the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project. Through role plays, lecture and discussion, Michael participants to think about what makes an effective Coordinated Community Response (CCR)—on-going struggles and promising practices. He shared anecdotes on reaching consensus on policy development, working collaboratively, solving systemic problems, accountability to battered women and advocacy programs, and why maintaining an effective CCR is so often difficult.
With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence presented by Michael Paymar
Michael will present the award-winning documentary, With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence written and produced by Michael Paymar and the late Ellen Pence. This film explores the historical, sociological, psychological and political perspectives of how and why gender-based violence and men’s objectification and exploitation of women have been accepted, condoned and increasingly masked within our society.
At the conclusion of the film, participant dialogue will help us understand that gender-based violence against women is not an individual problem committed by a few troubled men. Participants will make the connection between the long history of patriarchy and the continuing domination of women by men. What needs to change individually and culturally? Why are we silent and why don’t we act? How is the current backlash impacting our progress to change? What social change actions should we be employing in our communities?
Michael Paymar’s keynote address focused on the early days of the Battered Women’s Movement and development of Batterer Intervention Programs. Michael examined the often complex history of the various responses by law enforcement, the criminal and civil justice systems, advocacy, and counseling programs as intervention strategies. He will explore the ongoing controversies of counseling approaches for court-mandated offenders, research, successes and failures, victim safety, and accountability.
Michael share personal stories about the process of change for men who batter from his work at the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project. Through role plays, lecture and discussion, Michael participants to think about what makes an effective Coordinated Community Response (CCR)—on-going struggles and promising practices. He shared anecdotes on reaching consensus on policy development, working collaboratively, solving systemic problems, accountability to battered women and advocacy programs, and why maintaining an effective CCR is so often difficult.
With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence presented by Michael Paymar
Michael will present the award-winning documentary, With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence written and produced by Michael Paymar and the late Ellen Pence. This film explores the historical, sociological, psychological and political perspectives of how and why gender-based violence and men’s objectification and exploitation of women have been accepted, condoned and increasingly masked within our society.
At the conclusion of the film, participant dialogue will help us understand that gender-based violence against women is not an individual problem committed by a few troubled men. Participants will make the connection between the long history of patriarchy and the continuing domination of women by men. What needs to change individually and culturally? Why are we silent and why don’t we act? How is the current backlash impacting our progress to change? What social change actions should we be employing in our communities?
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Laura Goodman received the International Association of Women Police Heritage Award in Cairns, Australia! |
Laura accepted the Heritage Award in Cairns, Australia on September 18, 2017 during the Opening Ceremonies of he 2017 International Women & Law Enforcement Conference.
WomenPolice magazine article here.
Awards introduction here.
Awards speech here.
2017_heritage_award_acceptance_speech.pdf
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LAURA GOODMAN served on a panel discussion at Queen's College during Women's History Month. Panelists discussed specific incidents of improper policing and women law enforcement officers talked about how they police communities differently and what they were doing to prevent improper policing. Laura discussed research that she has worked on with the National Center for Women in Policing that indicates that women police officers tend to use less force and when using force, tend to use less lethal force and their emphasis is on defusing potentially violent situations . Women police officers also respond more effectively and compassionately to violence against women.
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Education for Critical Thinking was selected to present a program entitled Challenges and Solutions to End Gender-Based Violence at the CSW 2017 at the UN Headquarters in New York, New York. Michael Paymar and Laura Goodman showed ECT's award winning film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence and led a discussion on gender violence following the film. The presentation was well attended and the discussion energetic.
Newly revised film & facilitator's guide: With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence
We have completed the revised version of With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence with updated videos and interviews. In addition, we completed the Facilitator's Guide that accompanies the film. The Facilitator's Guide provides useful information on training with the film including numerous exercises that presenters can use when presenting the documentary. The guide follows the six themes of the documentary including 1) The Nature of the Problem; 2) The History of Gender-Based Violence; 3) The Four Pillars of Oppression; 4) The Influence of Culture; 5: Backlash; and 6) Change.
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Gender Bias in Policing RoundtableLaura Goodman was invited by the Battered Women's Justice Project to participate in a two day gender bias in policing roundtable in Washington DC, August 3-4, 2016. The group of participants representing police, advocates, professors, prosecutors, and federal government representatives worked to develop plans to identify and prevent gender bias in law enforcement's response to violence against women.
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Wyoming Conference on Violence Prevention and ResponseMichael Paymar was the keynote speaker at the first annual conference on violence prevention and response sponsored by the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In addition to the conference workshops and the keynote adddress, participants screened With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence after which Michael and Tiffany Eskelson-Maestas, Director of WCADVSA, led a powerful discussion about the film.
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EVAWI International Conference April 6-9, 2015, Laura Goodman presented training on Effective Strategies to Engage Crime Victims for Law Enforcement at the End Violence Against Women International Conference in New Orleans. The conference was attended by law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, medical personnel, faith community members, educators and others in this three day conference highlighting promising practices and emerging issues in sexual assault, domestic violence and campus resources.
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Inter-Parliamentary Union
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World Futures Gold AwardMichael Paymar, co-founder of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Program (DAIP), commonly referred to as the Duluth Model, accepted the World Futures Policy Gold Award on behalf of DAIP as it was awarded for being the best international policy to confront domestic violence.
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19th International Conference & Summit on Violence, Abuse & Trauma
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See Michael Paymar, With Impunity film developer and Executive Director of ECT on Sunday, September 7th, screening of With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence with discussion to follow; Monday, September 8th, The Politics of Violence and Abuse--plenary roundtable discussion; What Makes for Effective IPV Offender Treatment--keynote panel.
Linking Research, Practice, Advocacy & Policy: Collaboration & Commitment for Change, September 7-10, 2014, Town & Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA www.IVATCenters.org |
Critical Thinking Projects Realized
September 23rd, 2013--Durban, South Africa
Michael Paymar presented information on "The Duluth Model: Lessons Learned" and "Prevention of Gender Based Violence".
Laura Goodman presented information on "Victim Engagement." (See photo gallery)
Michael Paymar presented information on "The Duluth Model: Lessons Learned" and "Prevention of Gender Based Violence".
Laura Goodman presented information on "Victim Engagement." (See photo gallery)
Chautauqua at St. Catherine University
Summer 2013
- Michael showed his film, With Impunity & held an interactive discussion.
- Laura presented on global policing and how women in policing are changing the world.
Advocates for Human Rights Film Series
The Advocates for Human Rights recently selected With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence for its spring Women's Human Rights Film Series. The film will be shown on February 24th at 7 p.m. at the St. Anthony Park Library moderated by Cheryl Thomas and developer Michael Paymar.