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

Author: Melanie F. Shepard

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-08-21

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780761911241

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This is a comprehensive guide to developing a response to domestic violence using the Duluth Model. The contributors discuss the controversies which affect this community-based method.

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."

Beginning with the End in Mind
Beginning with the End in Mind

Author: Joy Prepejchal

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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Domestic Violence is a serious and pervasive problem in the United States. Over the past 25 to 30 years, many communities have begun taking a more active role in facing this problem. Unfortunately, many of these coordinated community responses to domestic violence have made little or no effort to incorporate program evaluation. The aim of the current study was to begin with the end in mind by incorporating program evaluation into each step of the process of developing a coordinated community response to domestic violence in a suburban Chicago community. The writer and the coordinated community response program developer collaborated throughout the program development process through consultation and interviews with members of relevant community agencies including the police department, local department of health and human services, a domestic violence shelter, and an agency providing services to children who witness family violence. Program development and program evaluation design were created concurrently and in accordance with requirements of a prospective grant funding source. The final product of this dissertation is a program evaluation protocol for the Hoffman Estates Domestic Violence Response Team (HEDVRT).

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.

Responding to Domestic Violence
Responding to Domestic Violence

Author: Eve S. Buzawa

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 983

ISBN-13: 1506311121

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This new edition of the bestselling Responding to Domestic Violence explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by public and non-profit social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic violence and its prevalence in our society, the authors cover such key topics as barriers to intervention, variations in arrest practices, the role of state and federal legislation, and case prosecution. Focusing on both victims and offenders, the book includes unique chapters on models for judicial intervention, domestic violence and health, and children and domestic violence. In addition, this edition provides an in-depth discussion of the concept of coercive control in domestic violence and its importance in understanding victim needs. Finally, this volume includes international perspectives in order to broaden the reader's understanding of alternative responses to the problem of domestic violence.

Stopping Domestic Violence
Stopping Domestic Violence

Author: Pamela J. Jenkins

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1461512131

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This volume examines models of collaboration between personnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domestic violence programs, medical and mental health settings, and law enforcement. Techniques are detailed that allow knowledge about domestic violence and primary prevention to be integrated into a community response by all those involved. It is an excellent resource for educators, social workers, public health professionals, clinicians, medical and mental health professionals, and law enforcement personnel.