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Future Lethality Risk: Strangulation
SESSION INFO
Sunday, June 30, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Workshop
This course is designed to inform community supervision officers of present and future risk involved in strangulation cases. This form of physical and emotional violence is highly prevalent in abusive intimate partner relationships. Attempts to strangle, sometimes referred to as "choking," not only raise lethality risk to our case victims but they can also cause very serious short-and-long term physical and mental problems, including delayed death. The course content will intend to educate on the definition, along with physical and psychological presentation of signs and symptoms of strangulation.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jennifer Waindle
Director, Battered Women's Justice Project
Jennifer Waindle joins BWJP with extensive experience in domestic violence prevention and law enforcement. She has spent more than 18 years in various leadership roles in DeKalb County in metro Atlanta. In her current role as a national technical assistance and training provider for probation, parole, and pretrial officers and their respective agencies. Prior to joining BWJP, she was a Senior Investigator in the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office where she co-led a newly formed Firearm Violence Prevention Unit focused on firearm assaults and homicides by serial offenders with an extensive domestic violence or felony background. The unit engaged in public outreach and education programs in firearm safety as well as collaborating extensively with federal law enforcement agencies. Earlier in her career with the District Attorney’s Office, she was part of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault unit that investigated and prosecuted felony cases involving intimate partner violence, intimate partner homicide and adult sexual assault. Prior to Jennifer’s work with the District Attorney’s Office, she was a Supervisor for DeKalb County State Court Probation. There she developed and implemented the policies and procedures for Intensive Supervision of Domestic Violence Probationers. Additionally, she mentored other probation and parole agencies in Georgia to develop specialized domestic violence units aimed at offender accountability while also assisting survivors and their families.
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