{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "restricted public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "The focus of this research and evaluation endeavor was on\r\ndirect service programs in Ohio, particularly advocacy services for\r\nfemale victims of violence, receiving funding through the Services,\r\nTraining, Officers, Prosecutors (STOP) formula grants under the\r\nViolence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994. The objectives of this\r\nproject were (1) to describe and compare existing advocacy services in\r\nOhio, (2) to compare victim advocacy typologies and identify key\r\nvariables in the delivery of services, (3) to develop a better\r\nunderstanding of how victim advocacy services are defined and\r\ndelivered, and (4) to assess the effectiveness of those services. For\r\nPart 1, Service Agencies Data, comprehensive information about 13\r\nVAWA-funded programs providing direct services in urban Ohio was\r\ngathered through a mailback questionnaire and phone interviews.\r\nDetailed information was collected on organizational structure,\r\nclients served, and agency services. Focus groups were also used to\r\ncollect data from clients (Parts 3-11) and staff (Parts 12-23) about\r\ntheir definitions of advocacy, types of services needed by victims,\r\nservices provided to victims, and important outcomes for service\r\nproviders. Part 2, Police Officer Data, focused on police officers'\r\nattitudes toward domestic violence and on evaluating service outcomes\r\nin one particular agency. The agency selected was a prosecutor's\r\noffice that planned to improve services to victims by changing how the\r\npolice and prosecutors responded to domestic violence cases. The\r\nprosecutor's office selected one police district as the site for\r\nimplementing the new program, which included training police officers\r\nand placing a prosecutor in the district office to work directly with\r\nthe police on domestic violence cases. The evaluation of this program\r\nwas designed to assess the effectiveness of the police officers'\r\ntraining and officers' increased access to information from the\r\nprosecutor on the outcome of the case. Police officers from the\r\nselected district were administered surveys. Also surveyed were\r\nofficers from another district that handled a similar number of\r\ndomestic violence cases and had a comparable number of officers\r\nemployed in the district. Variables in Part 1 include number of staff,\r\nbudget, funding sources, number and type of victims served, target\r\npopulation, number of victims served speaking languages other than\r\nEnglish, number of juveniles and adults served, number of victims with\r\nspecial needs served, collaboration with other organizations, benefits\r\nof VAWA funding, and direct and referral services provided by the\r\nagency. Variables in Part 2 cover police officers' views on whether it\r\nwas a waste of time to prosecute domestic violence cases, if these\r\ncases were likely to result in a conviction, whether they felt\r\nsympathetic toward the victim or blamed the victim, how the\r\nprosecution should proceed with domestic violence cases, how the\r\nprosecution and police worked together on such cases, whether domestic\r\nviolence was a private matter, and how they felt about the new program\r\nimplemented under VAWA.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02992.v2", "title": "Evaluation of Victim Advocacy Services Funded by the Violence Against Women Act in Urban Ohio, 1999"}], "identifier": "3811", "issued": "2000-09-18T00:00:00", "keyword": ["battered women", "case processing", "client characteristics", "clients", "domestic violence", "law enforcement agencies", "personnel", "police response", "police training", "program evaluation", "victim services", "victims"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "rights": "These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.", "title": "Evaluation of Victim Advocacy Services Funded by the Violence Against Women Act in Urban Ohio, 1999"}