22 AAC 25.090. Definitions

In this chapter,

(1) "approved program" means a program approved by the department under this chapter;

(2) "child support services agency" means the agency established in AS 25.27;

(3) "council" means the Alaska Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault;

(4) "department" means the Department of Corrections;

(5) "domestic violence" has the meaning given in AS 18.66.990 ;

(6) "lethality assessment" means an evaluation of the program participant's potential for causing physical injury to another person, considering the participant's domestic violence or psychological abuse toward the participant's most recent domestic partner, the frequency and severity of the domestic violence or psychological abuse, the participant's domestic violence or psychological abuse toward previous domestic partners, the participant's access to weapons, suicidal or homicidal thoughts or ideation, suicide attempts, access to a potential victim, and the status of the participant's relationship with the potential victim;

(7) "victim advocacy agency" has the meaning given the term "victim counseling center" in AS 18.66.250 ;

(8) "personal program participants' records" means records maintained by the approved program for a program participant, including an intake assessment, dates and summary of contacts with the program participant, lethality assessments, records of the participant's compliance and non-compliance with program requirements, and a summary of victim safety checks;

(9) "program" means an individual or an agency operating a community-based intervention program that is designed to prevent the recurrence of domestic violence; "program" includes a program that addresses issues of power and control, the beliefs and values that lead to domestic violence in our society, and a participant's responsibility for domestic violence, but does not include a program solely addressing alcoholism or use of controlled substances;

(10) "program participant" means a person who is a perpetrator of a crime involving domestic violence and who has been ordered to participate in and complete a program for the rehabilitation of perpetrators of domestic violence as a condition of probation, a condition of parole, or a condition of a protective order or domestic violence;

(11) "recidivism" means the verifiable recurrence of domestic violence or a crime against a person under AS 11.41;

(12) "substance abuse" includes abuse of alcoholic beverages and controlled substances;

(13) "victim safety check" means a process by which an assessment is made of a victim's risk of danger of domestic violence or psychological abuse from a program participant;

(14) "vulnerable adult" has the meaning given in AS 47.24.900 .

History: Eff. 11/13/98, Register 148

Authority: AS 44.28.020

Editor's note: As of Register 171 (October 2004), and acting under AS 44.62.125 (b)(6) and sec. 12, ch. 107, SLA 2004, the regulations attorney made technical changes to reflect the name change of the child support enforcement agency to the child support services agency made by sec. 1, ch. 107, SLA 2004.

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