34 datasets found
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Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, 1995-1998
Department of Justice —
The goal of the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS) was to develop a reliable and validated profile of risk factors directly related to lethal or life-... -
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Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the United States, 1994-1996
Department of Justice —
To further the understanding of violence against women, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),... -
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Violence Against Women: Developmental Antecedents Among Black, Caucasian, and Hispanic Women in the United States, 1987-1988 and 1992-1994
Department of Justice —
The aim of this study was to examine the factors related to different patterns of male violence against women. Employing both intra-individual and sociocultural... -
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Evaluation of Violence Against Women With Physical Disabilities in Michigan, 2000-2001
Department of Justice —
In the past few years it has become alarmingly clear that women with disabilities are at an extremely high risk for emotional, sexual, and physical assault. The... -
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Spouse Abuse Replication Project in Metro-Dade County, Florida, 1987-1989
Department of Justice —
The Metro-Dade project replicated an earlier study of domestic violence, the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (SPECIFIC DETERRENT EFFECTS OF ARREST FOR... -
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Impact Evaluation of Stop Violence Against Women Grants in Dane County, Wisconsin, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Jackson County, Missouri, and Stark County, Ohio, 1996-2000
Department of Justice —
In 1996 the Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ) began an evaluation of the law enforcement and prosecution components of the "STOP Violence Against Women" grant... -
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Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases in the United States, 1993-1994
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the level of domestic violence prosecution throughout the United States and to promote effective prosecution approaches... -
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Evaluation of a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence in Alexandria, Virginia, 1990-1998
Department of Justice —
This study was undertaken to evaluate Alexandria, Virginia's Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP), which is a coordinated community response to domestic... -
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Factors Related to Domestic Violence Court Dispositions in a Large Midwestern Urban Area, 1997-1998: [United States]
Department of Justice —
The goal of this study was to identify factors that influence whether city misdemeanor domestic violence cases in which batterers are arrested by police result in... -
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The Kentucky Civil Protective Order Study: A Rural and Urban Multiple Perspective Study of Protective Order Violation Consequences, Responses, and Costs, 2006-2008
Department of Justice —
This project examined civil protective orders in Kentucky from multiple perspectives in order to examine rural and urban jurisdictional differences in the protective... -
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Offender Characteristics, Offense Mix, and Escalation in Domestic Violence in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Miami-Dade, Florida, Omaha, Nebraska, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1987-1989
Department of Justice —
Using data from five Spouse Assault Replication Program (SARP) sites, this study examined the extent to which domestic violence offenders exhibit a specialized... -
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Testing the Impact of Batterer Intervention Programs and Court Monitoring in the Bronx [New York City, New York], 2002-2004
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this study was to provide a definitive test of whether batterer programs and varying intensities of judicial monitoring reduce reoffending among... -
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Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999
Department of Justice —
This survey of prosecutors was undertaken to describe current practice and identify "promising practices" with respect to cases involving domestic violence and child... -
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Evaluating a Collaborative Intervention Between Health Care and Criminal Justice in Harris County, Texas, 2001-2002
Department of Justice —
This study sought to evaluate the Advocacy-Case Management Intervention designed to increase victim safety and the efficiency of the protection order process. The... -
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Impact of Proactive Enforcement of No-Contact Orders on Victim Safety and Repeat Victimization in Lexington County, South Carolina, 2005-2008
Department of Justice —
The study focused on domestic violence victims whose alleged batterers were free on bond with a no-contact order (NCO) as a condition of their release in Lexington... -
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Evaluation of Victim Services Programs Funded by "Stop Violence Against Women" Grants in the United States, 1998-1999
Department of Justice —
This project investigated the effects of Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) funds with respect to the provision of... -
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Charlotte [North Carolina] Spouse Assault Replication Project, 1987-1989
Department of Justice —
This study is a replication and extension of an experiment conducted in Minneapolis (MINNEAPOLIS INTERVENTION PROJECT, 1986-1987 [ICPSR 9808]) to test the efficacy of... -
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Economic Distress, Community Context, and Intimate Violence in the United States, 1988 and 1994
Department of Justice —
Because of their restricted access to financial resources, couples undergoing economic distress are more likely to live in disadvantaged neighborhoods than are... -
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National Evaluation of the LEAA Family Violence Demonstration Program in Five Sites in the United States, 1980-1981
Department of Justice —
This study focused on the actuarial and situational correlates of domestic violence and the variables that differentiate those who batter their partners from those... -
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Evaluation of Victim Advocacy Services Funded by the Violence Against Women Act in Urban Ohio, 1999
Department of Justice —
The focus of this research and evaluation endeavor was on direct service programs in Ohio, particularly advocacy services for female victims of violence, receiving...
34 datasets found