• Rapid Rehousing for Domestic Violence Victims: A Formative Evaluation [Webinar Slides] 

  Snell, Elisabeth; Morin, Pam; Beaulieu, Melanie; Currier, Nikki (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This webinar presents the findings of one of the Center for Victim Research's funded VOCA-SAC projects. This webinar discusses the evaluation plan, including a theory of change, logic model and measurable outcomes developed ...
• VOCA-SAC Partnership Project Progress Report: Forensic Interviews in Idaho: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Coordinated Service Delivery 

  Kifer, Misty; Strauss, Thomas (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  Idaho’s Crime Victims Compensation Program (CVCP) has been experiencing financial stress in recent years. The suspected driver of that stress is a 2015 federal Medicaid policy change removing forensic interviews from the ...
• A Partnership to Enhance Victim Services: Evaluating Somerset House 

  Plotkin, Alexa; Baker, Maureen; Shaler, George; Snell, Elisabeth (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project is a collaboration between Family Violence Project (FVP), the Maine Statistical Analysis Center (Maine SAC) at the University of Southern Maine, and the Victims of Crime Administering Agency (VOCA) at the Maine ...
• CVAD-SAC Partnership Final Project Progress Report: Rapid Re-housing Program: Process Evaluation and Evaluability Assessment 

  Fineran, Sarah; Loynachan, Tracy; McCoy, Henna (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project proposed to conduct a process evaluation of the Friends of the Family (FOF) program in Iowa. Friends of the Family provides rapid re-housing to individuals and families affected by domestic violence. The process ...
• Improving Financial Justice for Victims of Crime, Part II: Exploring Victim Dynamics 

  Allen, Joseph; Sawa, Amanda (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project extends the previously-funded study “Improving Financial Justice for Victims of Crime” that was completed and submitted in December 2018. All aspects of the previous partnership were continued in this study, ...
• Poly-victimization Reaches Adolescence: Looking Back and Moving Forward [Webinar Slides] 

  Michel, Yahayra (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This webinar focused on poly-victims, the subgroup of youth that endure the highest burden of victimization. It covers how it has been studied, how often it occurs, what we know about its adverse effects and what we can ...
• The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story 

  Saar, Malika; Epstein, Rebecca; Rosenthal, Lindsay; Vafa, Yasmin (Rights4Girls, 2015)

  This report exposes the ways in which we criminalize girls — especially girls of color — who have been sexually and physically abused, and it offers policy recommendations to dismantle the abuse to prison pipeline. It ...
• Beyond the Walls: A Look at Girls in D.C.'s Juvenile Justice System 

  Vafa, Yasmin; Ferrer, Eduardo; Kaleem, Maheen; Hopkins, Cherice; Feldhake, Emily (Rights4Girls, 2018)

  Both nationally and in the District of Columbia, boys have made up a vast majority of the juvenile justice population. Consequently, research, best practices, system reform efforts, and policies have been ...
• Sexual Violence: Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Efforts to Address the Continuum of Unwanted Sexual Behaviors 

  Farrell, Brenda (Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2017)

  Unwanted sexual behaviors in the military—including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence involving sexual assault—undermine core values, unit cohesion, combat readiness, and public goodwill. Recent ...
• Intimate Partner Violence: The Predictive Power of Experiences in the Family of Origin and of Personality Disorder Traits 

  Madalena, Marcela; Carvalho, Lucas; Falcke, Denise (Trends in Psychology, 2018)

  Family-of-origin experiences and personality disorder characteristics are considered risk factors in relation to intimate partner violence. The present study’s objective is to examine the predictive power of experiences ...
• Sexual Violence Data: Actions Needed to Improve Clarity and Address Differences Across Federal Data Collection Efforts 

  Goodwin, Gretta (Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2016)

  This report addresses two questions: (1) What are the federal efforts underway to collect data on sexual violence, and how, if at all, do these efforts differ? (2) How do any differences across the data collection efforts ...
• Protecting People from Phishing: The Design andEvaluation of an Embedded Training Email System 

  Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam; Rhee, Yong; Acquisti, Alessandro; Cranor, Lorrie Faith; Hong, Jason; Nunge, Elizabeth (Carnegie Mellon University, 2007)

  Phishing attacks, in which criminals lure Internet users to websites that impersonate legitimate sites, are occurring with increasing frequency and are causing considerable harm to victims. In this paper we describe the ...
• How Effective is Anti-Phishing Training for Children? 

  Lastdrager, Elmer; Carvajal Gallardo, Inés; Hartel, Pieter; Junge, Marianne (USENIX Association, 2017)

  User training is a commonly used method for preventing victimization from phishing attacks. In this study, we focus on training children, since they are active online but often overlooked in interventions. We ...
• Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board: First Annual Report, 2018 

  Larson, DoraLee; Lamanna, Barb; Doe, Jenn; Dyer, Rachel (Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board, 2018)

  A total of seven cases of domestic violence fatalities reviewed were reviewed in 2017 by two active local Domestic Violence Fatality Review teams. The Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board reviewed findings from ...
• Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2017 

  Velasquez, Eva; Ferguson, Julie; Cullina, Matt; Beck, Terri; Bond, Paul; Donahue, Matthew; Grant, Susan; Roberts, Stew; Schaffer, Paige; Siciliano, Robert; Terry, Mona; Barney, Karen; Dwyer, Kelly; Hamilton, Alex (Identity Theft Resource Center, 2017)

  Now in its 10th year, the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Identity Theft: the Aftermath survey once again sought answers from victims to determine the short-term and long-term effects of various types of identity theft ...
• Identity Theft 

  Newton, Judy (Cardiff University, 2013)

  Recognized as one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States, identify theft has eluded customary, reactive systems of containment, due to its rapidly changing nature, the dependency upon legislative and corporate ...
• Final Report on the Vermont Legal Partnership Performance and Outcome Measures 

  Joy, Robin; Gennette, Karen (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project proposed using data to identify service delivery gaps, a plan to meet those gaps, as well as developing, implementing, and assessing performance measures for more effectively using the current PMT [Performance ...
• Types of Intimate Partner Homicides Committed by Women: Self-Defense, Proxy/Retaliation, and Sexual Proprietariness 

  Belknap, Joanne; Larson, DoraLee; Abrams, Margaret; Garcia, Christine; Anderson-Block, Kelly (Homicide Studies, 2012)

  Margo Wilson and Martin Daly began scientific work to explain intimate partner homicides (IPHs). Key to their work was women’s increased risk of IPH victimization relative to men. In the 1990s, many U.S. ...
• A randomized controlled trial of restorative justice-informed treatment for domestic violence crimes 

  Mills, Linda; Barocas, Briana; Butters, Robert; Ariel, Barak (Nature Human Behavior, 2019)

  Recent innovation in domestic violence (DV) treatment suggests that when a batterer intervention programme (BIP) is combined with clinical elements, including motivational or readiness to change strategies, subsequent ...
• Clearing homicides: Role of organizational, case, and investigative dimensions 

  Wellford, Charles; Lum, Cynthia; Scott, Thomas; Vovak, Heather; Scherer, J. Amber (Criminology & Public Policy, 2019)

  Since the RAND Corporation studies on investigations were published, there has been a widely held belief among scholars that police agencies and investigative effort matter little to solving crimes. A few researchers have ...

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