Work in Progress
Curriculum/Student Guide
ECT has completed a complex facilitator's guide for the newly revised film With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence. ECT is now developing a curriculum and student guide that will accompany the documentary With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence. The curriculum will include the facilitator's guide, PowerPoint presentations, exercises and training tips. The curriculum has chapters on adult learning techniques, how to organize training, ways to engage participants in dialogue and how to design action plans. The curriculum will follow the six chapters of the documentary including; 1) The Nature of the Problem; 2) The Historical Roots of Men's Violence Against Women; 3; The Four Pillars of Oppression; 4) The Influence of Culture; 5) Backlash; and 6: Change.
Modules in the curriculum will be designed to be adapted for training in schools, colleges and universities, community organizations and faith-based groups, community violence prevention and intervention organizations, military branches, domestic abuse groups and shelters and the criminal justice system.
Modules in the curriculum will be designed to be adapted for training in schools, colleges and universities, community organizations and faith-based groups, community violence prevention and intervention organizations, military branches, domestic abuse groups and shelters and the criminal justice system.
Research
Women Police--ECT is working on updating existing research and preparing comment on how increasing the number of women police officers can help end violence against women. Current research indicates that women police officers are as competent as their male counterparts, are less likely to use excessive force, cost less money in law suits related to excessive force, use a communicative style of policing that is more community oriented, respond with more concern, patience and understanding to crimes against women and children, and that increasing the numbers of women in policing reduces problems of sexual harassment and discrimination while benefiting both men and women in the department. Given the current climate of mistrust in law enforcement, along with reported failures to report and investigate crimes against women, a likely strategy may be to encourage cities, counties and states to recruit and retain more women in policing.