This article offers a structure for trying to distinguish between different types of stalking and for assessing the outcome of these different types of incidents. Using a law enforcement experiential paradigm, 10 stalking victims pilot-tested a questionnaire of 148 items. Revisions provided a 46-item checklist. In addition, 30 cases were used to pilot-test a typology of stalking based on the nature of the relationship—nondomestic or domestic; the content of communication—nondelusional or delusional; level of aggression—low, medium, or high; level of victim risk; motive of stalker; and outcome of case. Clinicians, investigators, judicial, and policy staff can utilize data from the Stalking Incident Checklist in their respective roles to provide for safety and protection of the victim and treatment and containment of the stalker.

The AIDS Policy, Training, and Technical Assistance Project was designed to assist state and local criminal justice agencies to develop and implement human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV)-related policies for both clients and employees of the organization. The target populations for the project were policymakers and managers from law enforcement, corrections, probation and parole, victim assistance, pretrial services, and drug and alcohol treatment services. A model 3-day HIV policy training curriculum, AIDS: From Policy to Practice, was pilot tested through a series of six national workshops for senior level administrators representing the target populations. A 6-month follow-up of the participants indicated significant changes in knowledge and attitudes about HIV policies and more important, policymakers had actually written/revised/implemented HIV-related policies as a result of the training program.

Throughout the last three decades, victims and victim advocates have significantly advanced victim's rights and services and have altered the fabric of police-victim interactions from viewing victims as necessary witnesses (Laszlo and Burgess, 1979; Waller, 1990) to engaging victims and victim organizations as collaborative partners in developing victim-oriented criminal justice services. As criminal justice agencies seek to engage stakeholders in problem-solving strategies, victims and victim organizations are becoming active partners in prevention, intervention, and restitution initiatives, and have been instrumental in tailoring criminal justice systems services to the needs of special populations. This paper describes four ongoing efforts to effect prevention, intervention, and restitution activities for special populations of victims and, in particular, to advancing community policing and community government in or for special populations. Within the historical contexts of the victim's movement, these efforts manifest the expanding role of victims as collaborative partners of police (including tribal police), prosecutors, and the courts.

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