This report presents the first opportunity for veterans, policymakers, and the public to examine in detail the experiences of MST [Military Sexual Assault] survivors as they seek compensation from VA. It is based on data ...

This Policy Paper reflects the findings of an eight-month project assessing the needs of Native American victims of family violence in California. The project was intended to inform the California Administrative Office of ...

To test a behaviorally specific measure of serious peer victimization, called aggravated peer victimization (APV), using empirically derived aggravating elements of episodes (injury, weapon, bias content, sexual content, ...

This study addresses gaps in knowledge about how survivors and stakeholders perceive justice in cases of human trafficking and the potential of alternative models of justice, including procedural, restorative, and transitional ...

How do we decide how to allocate criminal justice resources in a way that minimizes the social harms from both crime and policy efforts to control crime? How, for that matter, do we decide how much to spend on the criminal ...

Child abuse prevention programs have historically focused on individual and family dynamics rather than community-based or societal strategies to prevent child maltreatment. Recently, there has been a growing recognition ...

Dating violence is a serious public health problem. In recent years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other entities have made funding available to community based agencies for dating violence ...

NSVRC staff talk with Rose Hennessy, about new research outcomes for bystander intervention program effectiveness, programs consequences and how to use the data to inform prevention work. (Author Abstract)

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 victimization is typically presented as a gender-based problem involving a female victim and a male offender. Science, policy, and society focus on female victims at the expense of male victims. Male sexual victimization ...