For additional
information contact:
Sarah Burns
Genesis Women’s Shelter/Conference on Crimes Against Women
214-389-7702
sburns@genesisshelter.org
DALLAS TO HOST THE
FIFTH ANNUAL
CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
Dallas – February 23, 2010 –Almost 1,000
cops, investigators, prosecutors, FBI personnel, university police and victims
advocates will descend on Dallas when it hosts the Fifth Annual Conference
on Crimes Against Women (CCAW),
co-sponsored by Genesis Women’s Shelter and the Dallas Police Department March
8-10.
Sponsored by The
Mary Kay Foundation, The Nancy Ann Hunt Foundation, Hunt Consolidated, The
Embrey Family Foundation, Monitronics Monitored Security Systems, The Human
Rights Initiative, Thompson & Knight, LLP, The Dallas Association of Young
Lawyers and Bread Winners, it is the only national conference of its kind.
“It offers the
opportunity for police officers, investigators, prosecutors and victims
advocates to learn the best practices and cutting edge techniques to
investigate crimes committed against women, understand & interrogate the
offender, and how to keep women safe from violence.” said Jan Langbein,
Executive Director of Genesis Women's Shelter. “It is our hope that by attending the
Conference on Crimes Against Women, these men and women – often times the first
ones on a crime scene - will return to where they are from with new ideas and a
new energy to say, ‘I will be a part of the solution to this global epidemic,’”
said Conference Director Jennifer Cyr.
One highlight of
the Conference will be a presentation made by the Dallas County District
Attorney’s Office about its Conviction
Integrity Unit. The Conviction
Integrity Unit was formed to review old questionable convictions by using
modern scientific evidence. This
presentation will review the wrongful convictions and subsequent exonerations
of over 20 men in Dallas County.
Also speaking at
the conference is esteemed author and national domestic violence expert Lundy
Bancroft and several investigators from
the Dallas Police Department who
also appear on A&E’s The First 48.
The three-day
conference moves to a new downtown location this year and will also feature
presentations on interrogation techniques, investigating sexual assault cases,
human trafficking, effective courtroom testimony in domestic violence cases and
many others.
The Conference
on Crimes Against Women will be held at Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Dallas on the corner of Olive Street
and Live Oak. Registration rates
are $350 per person, and the Sheraton Hotel is offering special room rates for
the conference. Hotel reservations
can be made by calling 214-922-8000 or by visiting www.starwoodhotels.com. Registration for the conference is
available online at www.ccaw-online.org or by calling 214-389-7700
ABOUT THE
CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN: The annual Conference on Crimes Against
Women (CCAW) offers training from top national experts on investigating,
assisting victims and prosecuting crimes against women. Law enforcement officers, prosecutors
and victims advocates gather in Dallas to learn cutting edge techniques taught
by the most recognized experts in their fields. For additional information
about the Conference, please visit www.ccaw-online.org
ABOUT GENESIS
WOMEN’S SHELTER: Since it’s founding in 1985, Genesis Women’s Shelter has
been committed to providing quality safety and shelter to battered women and
their children through crisis intervention and short-term crisis therapeutics
and to reduce the occurrence of violence against women and children in the greater
Dallas area. Genesis Women’s
Shelter is also committed to raising the level of community awareness regarding
the pervasiveness and effects of domestic violence. The organization provides free and confidential counseling
and case management to more than 700 residential clients and 2,500
non-residential clients each year.
For additional information about Genesis Women’s Shelter, please visit
www.genesisshelter.org
ABOUT THE
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT: Since its creation more than 120 years
ago, the Dallas Police Department has created an atmosphere of ethical, caring
behavior. The 2,977 sworn officers
and 556 civilians who make up the department, take special pride in helping to
make Dallas a safe place to live, work and visit.