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Staying Home, Staying Safe? A Short-Term Analysis of COVID-19 on Dallas Domestic Violence

Piquero, Alex; Riddell, Jordan; Bishopp, Stephen; Narvey, Chelsey; Reid, Joan; Leeper Piquero, Nicole (Springer Open, 2020)

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around the world and social scientists are just beginning to understand its consequences on human behavior. One policy that public health officials put in place to help ...
Intimate Partner Violence Strangulation: Officer Training and Supplemental Strangulation Form

Zedaker, Sara; Brady, Patrick; Wilkes, Nicole (Crime Victims' Institute, 2018)

This research brief provides preliminary results of a research project conducted by [Crime Victims' Institute] between October 2014 and June 2016 that aimed to increase understanding of strangulation incidents and to ...
How can we best educate others about the impact of violence on boys and young men of color? Research and recommendations for a public education campaign

Martinez Cuestas, Shaddai; Dorfman, Lori (YouthAlive!, 2020)

Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG), the Healing Justice Alliance (HJA) communications technical assistance provider for the Supporting Male Survivors of Violence (SMSV) grant program, spearheaded a project to develop a ...
Unmet needs and service satisfaction of victim support for the direct and indirect victims of serious violence: Results from a cross-sectional survey in Taiwan

Huang, Lanying (PLoS One, 2018)

Victim support services, in mature societies, aim to help victims recover after suffering a traumatic event. The effectiveness of victim support has traditionally been evaluated through rates of service utilization and ...
Predictors of Engagement With Support Services in a Sample of UK Victims of Violent Crime

Lowe, Michelle; Willan, V.J.; Khan, Roxanne; Brooks, Matthew; Robinson, Phaedra; Graham-Kevan, Nicola; Stokes, Rachel; Irving, May; Karwacka, Marta; Bryce, Joanne (British Journal of Community Justice, 2016)

Research suggests that engagement with support services after criminal victimisation is low. With this in mind, this study investigated predictors of engagement with Victim Support, in a sample of victims of violent crime. ...
Police Response to Family Violence: The Effect of Mandatory Training on Case Processing Using Redacted Case Notes

Franklin, Cortney; Goodson, Amanda; Garza, Alondra; Bouffard, Leana Allen (Crime Victims' Institute, 2020)

The present study used a stratified random sample of redacted family violence case files from a sizeable, urban police department located in one of the fifth larges and most diverse U.S. cities to evaluate the effect of a ...
Does Training Affect Rape and Domestic Violence Myth Endorsement Among Police Personnel? A Trend Analysis

Franklin, Cortney; Garza, Alondra; Goodson, Amanda; Bouffard, Leana Allen (Crime Victims' Institute, 2020)

The present study uses a trend analysis to assess the impact of a trauma-informed training on rape and domestic violence myth endorsement among a sample of police participants. (Author Text)
The Impact of A Multidisciplinary Team after Elder Abuse and Neglect

DePrince, Anne; Hasche, Leslie (Traumatic Stress Studies Group, 2020)

To test the impact of Denver’s multidisciplinary response to older adult maltreatment, this research compared cases that were discussed by the team in person to those that weren’t. The cases that weren’t discussed by the ...
Digital Coercive Control: Insights From Two Landmark Domestic Violence Studies

Harris, Bridget; Woodlock, Delanie (Oxford University Press, 2019)

This paper examines the use of digital technologies by domestic violence perpetrators, which we believe constitutes ‘digital coercive control’. We draw on two Australian research projects and emerging research to provide ...
Is Violent Crime Increasing or Decreasing? a New Methodology to Measure Repeat Attacks Making Visible the Significance of Gender and Domestic Relations

Walby, Sylvia; Towers, Jude; Francis, Brian (Oxford University Press, 2016)

The fall in the rate of violent crime has stopped. This is a finding of an investigation using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 1994–2014, and an improved methodology to include the experiences of high-frequency ...
Tips for Reading Research Articles

Puls, Laura (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)

This Center for Victim Research (CVR) publication provides an introduction to reading research articles. It discusses strategies to increase readers' ease with reading journal articles, such as suggested reading order of ...
Responding To Sexual Assault on Campus: A National Assessment and Systematic Classification of the Scope and Challenges for Investigation and Adjudication

Williams, Linda; Pattavina, April; Cares, Alison; Stein, Nan (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2020)

Given the considerable changes in federal legislation and the pressing requirements that colleges and universities develop policies and practices that meet the needs of victims and of those accused of sexual assault, there ...
Evaluability Assessment and Baseline Study of the Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Program

Barrick, Kelle; Tibaduiza, Elizabeth; Dean, Caitlin; Young, Amanda; Gremminger, Merissa (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2020)

In support of Vision 21, OVC released a competitive solicitation, Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm...([CHI])...the organization awarded the [training and ...
Ability of Older Adults to Report Elder Abuse: An Emergency Department–Based Cross‐Sectional Study

Richmond, Natalie; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Reece, Bryce; Dayaa, Joseph; Davis, Mackenzie; Bowen, Samantha; Iasiello, John; Stemerman, Rachel; Shams, Rayad; Haukoos, Jason; Sloane, Philip; Travers, Debbie; Mosqueda, Laura; McLean, Samuel; Platts-Mills, Timothy (Wiley, 2020)

OBJECTIVES To characterize assessments of a patient's ability to report elder abuse within the context of an emergency department (ED)–based screen for elder abuse. DESIGN Cross‐sectional study in which participants were ...
Police Interactions with Victims of Violence

McLean, Sarah; Worden, Robert; Wilkens, Caitlin; Reynolds, Danielle; Cochran, Hannah; Worden, Kenan (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2019)

Little is known about the law enforcement practices that maximize victim cooperation and/or help-seeking. The interaction between a victim and the patrol officer who is the first responder might be a moment at which the ...
Impact of Victim Offender Dialogue on Victims of Serious Crimes: A Longitudinal Cohort-Control Study

Sliva, Shannon (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2020)

The goal of this study is to determine the impact of Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) on the health and wellbeing of victims of serious or violent crimes in Colorado, as well as victims’ satisfaction with the justice ...
Evaluation of OVC’s Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration

Lowry, Samantha; Feeley, Lisa; Smith, Jaclyn; Henninger, Alana; Bush, Amy (National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), 2020)

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) created a new demonstration grant program, the OVC Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project, to address the wide range of legal needs victims of crime have in ...
Why Extending Measurements of ‘Success’ in Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes Matters for Social Work

Westmarland, Nicole; Kelly, Liz (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Ever since domestic violence gained prominence on the social policy agenda, the focus of interventions has been on victims. A range of studies on social work/social welfare note the invisibility and/or lack of interventions ...
Increased death rates of domestic violence victims from arresting vs. warning suspects in the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment (MilDVE)

Sherman, Lawrence; Harris, Heather (Springer Open, 2015)

Objectives We explored death rates from all causes among victims of misdemeanor domestic violence 23 years after random assignment of their abusers to arrests vs. warnings. Methods We gathered state and national death data ...
Who has to tell their trauma story and how hard will it be? Influence of cultural stigma and narrative redemption on the storying of sexual violence

Delker, Brianna; Salton, Rowan; McLean, Kate; Syed, Moin (PLoS One, 2020)

Although survivors of sexual violence have shared their stories with the public on social media and mass media platforms in growing numbers, less is known about how general audiences perceive such trauma stories. These ...

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