DOT HS 809 289 | July 2001 |
A How To Guide for Victim Impact PanelsA Creative Sentencing Opportunity By
Janice Harris Lord Copyright 1990 Mothers Against Drunk Driving. All rights reserved. Revised Fourth Printing 2001. |
Victim Impact Panels
Benefit to the Community and the Offender
Laying the Groundwork
Panel Steering Committee or Task Force
Funding
Contracts to Provide Victim Impact Panels
Site Selection
Frequency of Panel Presentations
Attendee Criteria
Establishing Your Panel Program
Steering Committee Check-list
Implementing Your Victim Impact Panel
Research in Brief
Selecting Panel Speakers
Selection of Offenders and Other Speakers
Using Visuals
Guidelines and Tips for Speakers
Speaker Agreements
Impaired Driving Research
Intermediate Sanctions Research
One Solution
Additional Research
Order to Attend Panel form
Sign-in Sheet
Verification of Attendance
Sample Certificate of Attendance
Pre-test
Post-test
Sample Evaluation One
Sample Evaluation Two
Sample Evaluation Three
Sample Evaluation Four -- Mailed Follow-up Survey
Benefits for Speakers
A Letter from a Victim Impact Speaker
Research on Panelists
Poem
Speaker Agreement
Offender Speaker Agreement