Center for Victim Research Repository: Recent submissions

  • Conflict Tactics Scales - Parent Child 
    Straus, M.A.; Hamby, S.L.; Finkelhor, D.; Moore, D.; Runyan, D. (National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), 1995)
    Straus, Hamby, Finkelhor, Moore, and Runyan developed the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (CTSPC) as a brief tool to improve the ability of the already existent Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) to obtain data on physical ...
  • ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Parent Version 
    International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; World Health Organization; United Nations (Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009)
    In 2009, ISPCAN collaborated with UNICEF, the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and the World Health Organization to develop the ISPCAN Child ...
  • ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Version 
    International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; World Health Organization; United Nations (Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009)
    In 2009, ISPCAN collaborated with UNICEF, the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and the World Health Organization to develop the ISPCAN Child ...
  • ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Retrospective Questionnaire 
    International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; World Health Organization; United Nations (Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009)
    In 2009, ISPCAN collaborated with UNICEF, the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and the World Health Organization to develop the ISPCAN Child ...
  • Child Abuse Potential Inventory 
    Milner, J. (PAR, 1986)
    Milner developed the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) in 1986 to help protective services workers detect physical child abuse in their investigations of reported child abuse cases. This is a self-report screening ...
  • Pediatric Hurt-Insult-Threaten-Scream-Sex 
    Shakil, A.; Day, P.G.; Chu, J.; Woods, S.B.; Bridges, K. (Family Medicine, 2014)
    Shakil, Day, Chu, Woods, and Bridges developed the Pediatric Hurt-Insult-Threaten Scream-Sex tool (PedHITSS) in 2014 to detect and prompt provider investigation into child abuse in clinical health care settings. This tool ...
  • Victimization Assessment Tool 
    Hoff, L.A.; Rosenbaum, L. (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994)
    Hoff and Rosenbaum developed the Victimization Assessment Tool in 1994 to assist nurses and other primary care providers with routine assessment for victimization in diverse health and mental health settings. The tool is ...
  • Sexual and Physical Abuse Questionnaire 
    Kooiman, C.G.; Ouwehand, A.W.; ter Kuile, M.M. (Child Abuse and Neglect, 2002)
    Kooiman, Ouwehand, and ter Kuile developed the Sexual and Phsyical Abuse Questionnaire (SPAQ) in 2002 to screen for and assess sexual and physical abuse during childhood and later years using narrow definitions of abuse. ...
  • Sexual Abuse Questionnaire 
    Lock, T.; Levis, D.J.; Rourke, P.A. (Journal of Child Sex Abuse, 2005)
    Lock, Levis, and Rourke developed the Sexual Abuse Questionnaire in 2005 as a brief screening inventory to help clinicians identify childhood sexual abuse history. This propreitary tool exists under a copyright by the ...
  • Abuse Screening Questions 
    Curry, M.A.; Powers, L.E.; Oschwalk, M. (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 2003)
    Curry, Powers, and Oschwalk developed the Abuse Screening Questions in 2003 to screen for abuse unique to women with disabilities, who are at increased risk for violence. The instrument includes eight items - five of which ...
  • Mitigating active shooter impact: Analysis for policy options based on agent/computer-based modeling 
    Anklam, Charles; Kirby, Adam; Shareski, Filipo; Dietz, J. Eric (Journal of Emergency Management, 2014)
    Active shooting violence at confined settings, such as educational institutions, poses serious security concerns to public safety. In studying the effects of active shooter scenarios, the common denominator associated with ...
  • Homicide Report, 2017 
    Beck, Charlie (Los Angeles Police Department, 2017)
    In 2017, the City of Los Angeles had 282 homicides. The following are key points: The total homicide number includes victims who were assaulted in previous years, but died in 2017, and/or death investigations ruled as ...
  • Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People: A specific perspective on and by survivors of childhood sexual abuse 
    Fisher, Pamela; Balfour, Bob; Moss, Sally (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    Co-production is gaining ground as a key dimension of public policy reform across the globe. This paper argues in favour of social welfare shaped by the principles of co-production and suggests that the promotion of ...
  • Mass Violence and Terrorism Victimization: Bibliography of Research and Practice Evidence 
    Tiry, Emily; Langness, Melanie; Okeke, Cameryn (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)
    This bibliography includes the research reviewed for the Mass Violence and Terrorism Victimization: What We Know from Research- and Practice-based Evidence synthesis report from the Center for Victim Research. Articles ...
  • Mass Violence and Terrorism Victimization: What We Know from Research- and Practice-Based Evidence 
    Tiry, Emily; Langness, Melanie; Okeke, Cameryn (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)
    The Center for Victim Research is assessing the state of the field in victim response specific crime types. This synthesis compiles research and practice evidence about mass violence and terrorism victimization. The report ...
  • Rapid response to mass shootings: A review and recommendations 
    Reeping, Paul; Jacoby, Sara; Rajan, Sonali; Branas, Charles (Wiley, 2019)
    Research Summary We conducted a scoping review of literature indexed in the National Library of Medicine's journal citation database, MEDLINE, and Scopus to identify articles in which the rapid response of hospital staff, ...
  • Space between concern and crime: Two recommendations for promoting the adoption of the threat assessment model and encouraging bystander reporting 
    Silver, James (Wiley, 2020)
    Amid widespread agreement that public mass violence is generally the result of understandable and often discoverable thoughts and behaviors, the threat assessment model of identifying, assessing, and managing potential ...
  • Algorithmic approach to forecasting rare violent events: An illustration based in intimate partner violence perpetration 
    Berk, Richard; Sorenson, Susan (Wiley, 2020)
    Research Summary Mass violence, almost no matter how defined, is (thankfully) rare. Rare events are difficult to study in a systematic manner. Standard statistical procedures can fail badly, and usefully accurate forecasts ...
  • Potential to prevent mass shootings through domestic violence firearm restrictions 
    Zeoli, April; Paruk, Jennifer (Wiley, 2020)
    Research Summary We investigated the extent to which the 89 mass shooters who committed their acts from 2014 through 2017 were known or suspected to commit domestic violence prior to the shooting, whether they had been ...
  • Why have public mass shootings become more deadly? Assessing how perpetrators’ motives and methods have changed over time 
    Lankford, Adam; Silver, James (Wiley, 2019)
    Research Summary Public mass shootings in the United States have become substantially more deadly over time. We document this increase, offer a model to explain it, review supporting evidence for the model, and present new ...