Oct. 8 y 1986 Volunteers Needed for Abuse Study The U.S. Attorney General has identified family violence as one of the most critical problems in the United States today and Dauphin, Cumberland, Lebanon, and Perry Counties are no exception. A nationwide study is currently being conducted by a research team from the California State University- Sacrainento and Women’s Research Institute (Brigham Young University) in cooperation with the YWCA Women’s Shelter. Harrisburg and its surrounding area has been randomly selected as one of twelve communities to participate in this study. Though the incidence of domestic abuse is high, women also place a high value upon marriage and family relationships as well as safety issues. For this reason, many women remain in abusive situations a long time and try a number of methods to end the abuse. This fall a study is underway to determine what strategies these abuse victims have tried and what results they have had. 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Answers to the problem of crime and the suffering it brings can sometimes be found in social programs that help deal with such inequities as poverty and discrimination, in criminal rehabilitation and treatment programs, and in crime prevention efforts. Until those efforts arc completely successful, we must deal with reality. A reality that indicates only 50% of all crimes are reported, that only 10% result in arrest, and a mere fraction of these result in convictions. We spend at least $20,000 a year for every prison inmate - in addition to the cost of the prison itself. We spend some $26 billion to administer criminal justice, of which over half goes to police agencies, 20% to the judicial process, and over 20% to corrections programs. A reality that fails to address, much less answer, the central human question after the criminal act is done: What About The Victim? 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Isolation from friends, family and others can perhaps be the final blow. We cannot prevent all crime, or eliminate all its adverse effects, but we can reduce many of them. Rights of victims and witnesses to be free from needless harm is the recognition of the human right to compassion, dignity and justice. Enter the Victim/Witness Assistance Program of Dauphin County, a public service project of the young lawyers section of the Bar Association. Executive Director of this agency is Laurie Reiley. Lisa Henry is the Volunteer Coordinator. The agency has been in existence (continued on pg. 9)
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