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A realist review of which advocacy interventions work for which abused women under what circumstances (Review)

Rivas, C.; Vigurs, C.; Cameron, J.; Yeo, L. (2019)

A review of which advocacy interventions work to help abused women, and under what circumstances, and which women are likely to benefit...We wished to understand which advocacy interventions work to help abused women, under ...

A systematic review that evaluates the extent and quality of involving childhood abuse survivors in shaping, conducting and disseminating research in the UK

Kennedy, Simone; Bewley, Susan; Chevous, Jane; Perôt, Concetta; Vigneri, Marcella; Bacchus, Loraine (Research for All, 2022)

Despite a well-established understanding of the mental and physical health consequences associated with exposure to childhood abuse, the active voices of survivors are rarely present in shaping, conducting and disseminating ...

Engaging with Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Participatory Methods and Approaches in Research Informing the Development of Health Resources and Interventions

Freire, Kate; Pope, Rod; Jeffrey, Kate; Andrews, Kristen; Nott, Melissa; Bowman, Tricia (Springer, 2022)

In research, participatory approaches involve engaging in the research with people and empower co-researchers to have a voice. The aim of this review was to synthesize the methods and approaches used to enable children, ...

Survivor Voices: What Works, What Doesn't, and How Can California Better Serve Victims of Crime

Castro Rodriguez, Gena (Prosecutors Alliance California, 2022)

To inform policy and public spending aimed at prevention and healing, this study of survivors and the work of the Survivor Center at the Prosecutors Alliance aims to highlight critical gaps that exist in the current system. ...

Gender-based online violence spikes after prominent media attacks

Brown, Megan; Sanderson, Zeve; Silva Ortega, Maria Alejandra (Brookings, 2022)

In order to analyze the relationship between attacks by prominent media figures and the quality of online discussion, we—NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and the International Women’s Media Foundation—collected ...

The Dance of Race and Privilege in CBPR

Chávez, Vivian; Duran, Bonnie; Baker, Quinton; Avila, Magdalena; Wallerstein, Nina (Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, 2011)

This chapter will build on the principles of CBPR (see Chapter Three) to examine the hard issues of race and ethnicity, racism, and white privilege that every community-based participatory researcher, whether white or a ...

Translating Scientific Knowledge About Trauma into Action

DePrince, Anne (Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2022)

Author’s Note: Themes from this editorial are adapted from the forthcoming book Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence against Women (Oxford University Press), scheduled for release April 2022....Over the last ...

'A shadow of me old self': The impact of image-based sexual abuse in a digital society

Huber, Antoinette (International Review of Victimology, 2022)

This article sheds a new light on the impact of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) on women. Drawing on findings from 17 in-depth interviews, it details the emotional, physical and social impact of this online victimisation, ...

Reducing Substance Use Disorders and Related Offending: A Continuum of Evidence-Informed Practices in the Criminal Justice System

Gleicher, Lily (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2019-09-17)

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) researchers developed a web-based continuum to share evidence-informed practices for addressing substance use disorders (SUDs) and substance misuse to guide local-level ...

An Introduction to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Harrell, Erika; Kena, Grace; Truman, Jennifer (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2019-07-23)

This presentation provides an overview of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the primary source of information on nonfatal criminal victimization in the United States. The ...

Communicating and Disseminating Research Findings

Paul, Casey (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2019)

This webinar provides an overview of how to communicate and disseminate research findings in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences. It focuses on identifying your audience and catering your research reports to that ...

Can PSM Strategies Replicate RCT Results in Criminal Justice Research?

Campbell, Christopher; Labrecque, Ryan (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2019-02-27)

Identifying the best practices for reducing crime and victimization requires ample research with a strong methodology. Understood as the “gold standard” in research design, the randomized control trial (RCT) has been shown ...

Forecasting Prison Populations, Costs, and other Outcomes

Pelletier, Elizabeth; Peterson, Bryce (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2020-02-14)

Researchers from the Urban Institute recently developed the Prison Population Forecaster (PPF) (https://apps.urban.org/features/priso...), which allows individuals to explore how user-customized policy changes might affect ...

Understanding Offending and Re-offending Patterns among Firearms Involved Offenders

Pryzbylski, Roger; Oliphant, Stephen; Circo, Giovanni; McGarrell, Edmund; Gleicher, Lily (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2020-11-18)

Firearms crime remains a significant public safety and public health problem throughout the country. Research indicates that evidence-based violence prevention strategies are most effective when highly focused and linked ...

What is the SAC Role in Identifying and Resolving Data Quality Issues Found in Secondary Data Sets?

McDonough, James; Shaler, George; Escamilla, Justin (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2021-01-28)

SACs routinely house and use secondary criminal justice data – both case-level and aggregated – obtained from agencies with primary statutory/regulatory responsibility for collecting and managing that data. These are often ...

An Introduction to Data Visualization with RStudio

Santorico, Stephanie (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2018-11-29)

With the data revolution well upon us, deciphering such a large amount of information can be daunting - requiring the use of statistical and visualization tools. In this webinar attendees will be introduced to the powerful ...

States Assisting Counties: Using State Data and Analytic Capacity to Support Local Planning

Olson, David (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2018-11-08)

As with politics, justice is local. The majority of justice system agencies in the U.S. operate at the local level, but most local jurisdictions lack the capacity to engage in data-driven, system-wide strategic planning. ...

Qualitative Research Methods for Policy, Practice, and Research

Cotton Bronk, Kendall (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2018-09-20)

How do incarcerated youth experience the criminal justice system? How do they make sense of their experiences in court? In youth detention facilities? In rehabilitation settings? To explore these kinds of questions, we ...

DICRA Data Reporting by SACs: Initial Challenges and Solutions

Gann, Taylor; Shoaf, Lisa (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2020-06-04)

In 2019, Federal enforcement of the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DICRA) was transitioned to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and responsibility for state-level data collection was given to State Administering Agencies ...

Web Resources for Identifying Effective Criminal Justice Programs: What They Offer and How They Differ

Myrent, Mark (Justice Research and Statistics Association, 2020-06-25)

Researchers, program planners, and policymakers have access to a number of web-based resources that serve as a centralized source of information on what works in criminal and juvenile justice. These resources typically ...

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