Coordinating the Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Coordinating the Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence

Author: Nicole E. Allen

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1437929575

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Communities across the U.S. are focused on creating coordinated responses to intimate partner violence (IPV). Illinois took an innovative approach to facilitating the development of coordinated responses statewide. Beginning in 1990, the Admin. Office of the Illinois Courts spearheaded the creation of a network of Family Violence Coordinating Councils (FVCC) across 22 Judicial Circuits. This study examined the effectiveness of this coordinating council structure by investigating the extent to which FVCC have an impact on perceived shifts in stakeholder knowledge and relationships and institutionalized change and more distal systems change outcomes in the systems response to IPV (e.g., accessibility of orders of protection). Illustrations.

Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence
Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence

Author: Melanie F. Shepard

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1999-08-21

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1452264775

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This book provides a comprehensive guide to the development of a coordinated community response to domestic violence based on the internationally known "Duluth Model." Drawing from the experiences of practitioners, scholars, and researchers in the field, this book provides rich insights into the complexities and challenges of addressing domestic violence. Eight key components of a successful community intervention project are addressed in separate chapters: - Developing policies and protocols - Enhancing networking among service providers - Building monitoring and tracking systems - Developing a supportive infrastructure for victims - Providing sanctions and rehabilitation opportunities - Addressing the needs of children - Evaluating the effectiveness of community response Other chapters discuss types of violence that have been most difficult to address in providing a community response, the use of violence by women, and marital rape. Replication and adaptation in different countries (England, Australia, and New Zealand) are the focus of two chapters that lend an international perspective. This book provides the answers about what is indeed the "Duluth Model."

Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice
Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice

Author: Merry Morash

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780761926306

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Why are there pronounced gender differences in rates of criminal victimization? Does gender influence the response of the criminal justice system and other parts of the community to offenders and to crime victims? What part does gender play in the etiology of illegal activities committed by both males and females? Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice takes a contemporary look at such questions and considers areas that are often neglected in other books on gender, crime, and justice. In the last three decades, there has been an explosion of theory and related research relevant to gender, crime, and justice. Author Merry Morash, a well-known feminist scholar in the field of criminal justice, acquaints readers with key breakthroughs in criminological conceptualization and theories to explain the interplay between gender and both crime and justice. Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice pays especial attention to race, ethnicity, and immigrant groups, and provides a unique comparative perspective. Key Features Includes first-person accounts from crime victims, workers in the justice system, male lawbreakers, and women engaged in prostitution to give insight into a diversity of experiences and standpoints Parallels the effects of gender and sexual orientation in laws, in patterns and causes of victimization, and in the responses of the justice system to both victims and offenders Integrates international examples to place U.S. experiences in a comparative perspective and to show gender inequities on a worldwide scale Provides numerous photos--unique for a text of this type--to portray people of all sorts in various regions of the world Includes Web site recommendations for further exploration of chapter topics Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on women and criminal justice. The book is also a valuable asset for gender courses in sociology and for women's studies programs.

Coordinating a Community Response (CCR) to Domestic Violence
Coordinating a Community Response (CCR) to Domestic Violence

Author: Katherine Andrews

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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By completing a structured program of study, Katherine Andrews/CCR Coordinator gained the knowledge, skills & abilities (KSA's) required to function as a culturally competent professional and to meld the Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island into a Coordinated Community Response Team to Domestic Violence (Goal 2 STOP VAIW Discretionary Grant) thus providing the opportunity for increased victim safety and offender accountability. Each workshop and course taken applied directly to meeting the stated goals of the study. The program of study also included identifying barriers and challenges faced by initiating the process on an island in rural Alaska, addressing goals 1-5 of the STOP VAIW Discretionary Grant, utilizing available resources, and developing a physical & electronic resource library for use by the Domestic Violence Division of the Tribal Government of Saint Paul Island and other community entities.