Navigating our country’s health system—from getting affordable insurance coverage to finding quality care—can be a challenge for anyone. But America’s estimated 9 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, individuals face an additional hurdle: Despite advances in public acceptance of LGBT issues over the past decade, LGBT people and their families seeking health coverage and care continue to encounter discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

California is first in the nation to agree to pay for a transgender inmate’s sex reassignment operation, but the state’s settlement of a recent court case sidesteps the question of whether such surgery is a constitutional right.

The National Registry of Exonerations provides comprehensive information on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past errors.

The purpose of this research1 is to identify groups of persons at high risk for serious violent victimization to help inform how victim services and assistance can be targeted to victims of greatest need. Disparities in risk and use of victim services are examined using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)—the nation’s primary source of statistical information on criminal victimization. Group characteristics such as gender, race and ethnicity, and low income status are

This report by the Center for Victim Research summarizes existing evidence from research and practice and identifies where the field needs to grow to improve our nation’s response to homicide co-victims.

This is a glossary of some of the more common terms that are used when discussing transgender identities and experiences. Dentitions and preferred terms will vary by location and group.

This report summarizes the views of 20 roundtable participants regarding restorative justice in their communities. It will provide insight for those agencies and organizations looking to implement and promote restorative justice in their own communities.

Restorative justice practices “encourage offenders to take responsibility for their actions and to repair the harms they have caused, usually (although not always) in communication with their personal victims. This review focuses on the subset of restorative justice procedures that has been tested most carefully and extensively: face-to-face restorative justice conferencing (RJC).