2026 CCAW Summit: Beyond the Bounds

The 2026 CCAW Summit: Beyond the Bounds will serve as an extension of the Conference on Crimes Against Women to highlight the specific gender-based challenges that are unique to coastal cities, rural towns, and resort communities. Victims and survivors of these areas are confronted with geographic isolation and transportation issues as well as a lack of anonymity and limited access to resources and services. Furthermore, evidence reveals that systemic responses to these challenges are compounded by additional issues such as overwhelming tourism influxes and subsequent migratory crimes that pose jurisdictional difficulties, perpetuate a lack of offender accountability, and compromise first responder coordination. Therefore, the CCAW Summit will provide education, training, and best-practice strategies to address problems such as aquatic homicide, human trafficking, immigration and border issues, elder abuse, CPS involvement, 9-1-1 reporting, domestic and sexual violence investigations, law enforcement report writing, forensic nursing, and prosecutorial perspectives.