• Profiles of Resilience among Children Exposed to Non-Maltreatment Adverse Childhood Experiences 

  Yoon, Susan; Helsabeck, Nathan; Wang, Xiafei; Logan, Jessica; Pei, Fei; Hamby, Sherry; Slesnick, Natasha (Elsevier, 2021)

  Considering the high prevalence and negative consequences of non-maltreatment adverse childhood experiences (NM-ACEs), it is critical to understand their impacts on the resilient functioning of young children. This study ...
• Trauma informed interventions: A systematic review 

  Han, Hae-Ra; Miller, Hailey; Nkimbeng, Manka; Budhathoki, Chakra; Mikhael, Tanya; Rivers, Emerald; Gray, Ja'Lynn; Trimble, Kristen; Chow, Sotera; Wilson, Patty (National Institutes of Health, 2021)

  Background Health inequities remain a public health concern. Chronic adversity such as discrimination or racism as trauma may perpetuate health inequities in marginalized populations. There is a growing body of the ...
• Guidelines to Incorporate Trauma-Informed Care Strategies in Qualitative Research 

  Wong, Rebecca (Urban Institute, 2021)

  Researchers seeking better understanding of the infrastructures, stakeholders, and experiences that affect people who have experienced trauma have a responsibility beyond standard research ethics to appropriately conduct ...
• FamilySafe Project Evaluation: Implementation and Initial Lessons Learned 

  Oglesby-Neal, Ashlin; Marcellin, Colette; Buck Willison, Janeen; Dank, Meredith; Hughes, Andrea (Urban Institute, 2021)

  The Urban Institute, in partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is evaluating the FamilySafe Project (FSP). The project is administered by Sanctuary for Families (SFF) and Rising Ground’s STEPS to End Family ...
• Community-Engaged Surveys: From Research Design to Analysis and Dissemination 

  Harrison, Eona; Mizota, Matthew; Daly, Hannah; Falkenburger, Elsa (Urban Institute, 2021)

  In this toolkit, you will learn how to implement community-engaged methods in survey research, with examples of projects from across the Urban Institute. The document begins with an overarching section on how to gather and ...
• Bullying as a Developmental Precursor to Sexual and Dating Violence Across Adolescence: Decade in Review 

  Espelage, Dorothy; Ingram, Katherine; Hong, Jun Sung; Merrin, Gabriel (SAGE, 2021)

  Adolescent bullying continues to be a major focus of scholarship across the globe. This article reviews research from 2010 to 2021 with a particular focus on longitudinal studies of the bully–sexual violence pathway (BSVP), ...
• National TeleNursing Center: Program Evaluation Final Report 

  Cross, Theodore; Walsh, Wendy; Cross, Elizabeth (Office of Justice Programs, 2018)

  The National TeleNursing Center (NTC) was established through a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded to the Massachusetts (MA) Department of Public Health’s Sexual ...
• "Everybody Loses": Understanding Police Roles and Perceptions of Domestic Violence Calls 

  Fulambarker, Anjali (Qualitative Criminology, 2020)

  To better understand police response to domestic violence, it is useful to consider the perspectives of officers themselves. Through exploratory, in-depth interviews and applying the lens of role theory, this study focuses ...
• Potential Datasets to Understand Femicide 

  Przybylski, Roger; Puls, Laura (United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2021)

  This one-pager chart compares five sources of data on femicide in the United States: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), National Vital ...
• Mass Murder in America: Trends, Characteristics, Explanations, and Policy Response 

  Fox, James Alan; Levin, Jack (SAGE, 2021)

  Mass murder, especially involving a firearm, has been a subject of increasing interest among criminologists over the past decade. Lacking an existing and reliable data resource for studying these crimes, several organizations ...
• A victim-centred cost–benefit analysis of a stalking prevention programme 

  Tompson, Lisa; Belur, Jyoti; Jerath, Kritika (BMC, 2021)

  Research suggests that stalking inflicts great psychological and financial costs on victims. Yet costs of victimisation are notoriously difficult to estimate and include as intangible costs in cost–benefit analysis. This ...
• Police Officers Do Not Need More Training; But Different Training. Policing Domestic Violence and Abuse Involving Children: A Rapid Review 

  Millar, Annemarie; Saxton, Michael; Øverlien, Carolina; Elliffe, Ruth (Springer, 2021)

  Although the police have been identified as a key service provider when responding to domestic violence and abuse (DVA), very few studies have investigated their response in relation to children. This review aims to examine ...
• Co-Occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence with Child Maltreatment: The Facts 

  Unknown author (National Children's Advocacy Center, 2021)

  This fact sheet summarizes findings from multiple studies about connections between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. (CVRL Abstract)
• Tech Abuse in the Pandemic & Beyond 

  Safety Net Project (National Network to End Domestic Violence, 2021)

  TECH ABUSE is a widespread problem seen by advocates and legal systems professionals across the US. Our new report, “Tech Abuse in the Pandemic and Beyond,” shares findings from a needs assessment that included the ...
• Advances in Measurement: A Scoping Review of Prior Human Trafficking Prevalence Studies and Recommendations for Future Research 

  Barrick, Kelle; Pfeffer, Rebecca (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Human trafficking victimization is harmful to individuals, families, institutions, communities, and nations. It is commonly understood that human trafficking is a widespread problem, yet the variation in global estimates ...
• How can survivor support services meet the needs of trans and non-binary survivors? 

  Unknown author (Survivors' Network, 2021)

  This report shares experiences and insights from the Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex (TNBI) Survivors’ Group delivered by Survivors’ Network and Switchboard in Brighton & Hove, from June 2020 – June 2021. The project consisted ...
• Elder Mistreatment Victims during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Administrative Data from San Francisco Adult Protective Services 

  Liu, Pi-Ju; Wang, Aining; Schwab-Reese, Laura; Stratton, Sara (Springer, 2021)

  This study examined elder mistreatment victims’ experiences at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their COVID-19 awareness and unmet needs. San Francisco Adult Protective Services (APS) caseworkers conducted ...
• Abuse Hurts At Every Age. UCF’s Bethany Backes Talks Domestic Violence in 50 Plus Women During the Pandemic 

  Prieur, Danielle; Backes, Bethany (WMFE, 2021)

  A new study out of UCF paints a picture of the abuse women 50 and up have faced over the past year. More than 40 percent of the women surveyed in the study reported domestic violence, while 17 percent disclosed sexual ...
• Preventing Gender-Based Homelessness in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: The Need to Account for Violence Against Women 

  Yakubovich, Alexa; Maki, Krys (SAGE, 2021)

  The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to increases in intimate partner violence (IPV), a leading cause of women's homelessness. Although the Canadian Government provided emergency funding to the ...
• Male IPV Perpetrator’s Perspectives on Intervention and Change: A Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies 

  McGinn, Tony; McColgan, Mary; Taylor, Brian (SAGE, 2020)

  Objective: To add to our understanding of change processes by analyzing perpetrators’ perspectives on intervention. Method: Fourteen databases were searched and 27 articles reporting relevant qualitative findings were ...

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