Material Listing

Categories Include:

• Justice & Related Systems
• Definition & Measurement
• Epidemiology
• Social & Cultural Context
• VAWA Evaluations
• Synthesis of Existing Information
• NIJ Jointly-Funded Projects

Sections include:

• Multicultural Domestic Violence Theories, Approaches, Analyses
• Specific Racial/Ethnic Groups and Domestic Violence
• Social Class: Socio-Economic Status, Related Issues, and Domestic Violence
• Religious Groups and Domestic Violence
• Lesbians
• Social and Personal Change
• Rural Domestic Violence
• Women with Disabilities and Domestic Violence

The report is grounded in stories from around the world of individual woman's and groups of women's experiences of torture and abuse including: so called "honor crimes" of violence for ostensibly bringing shame on the family; domestic violence; sexual abuse in the workplace; experiences when purchased for forced labor, sexual exploitation, forced marriage; accusations of zina (fornication), and a range of torture and systematic indifference by state/government actors in prisons, police stations, during war and in daily life.

This report provides information regarding the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of a resolution entitled "In-depth study on all forms of violence against women." The resolution requests the Secretary-General to conduct an in-depth study on all forms and manifestations of violence against women. This report offers background information on data collection, a summary of the discussion and objectives of the expert group meeting, and recommendations for collecting data on violence against women, improving population-based surveys and enhancing service-based data.

"Sexual violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. However, measuring the problem can be difficult due to the lack of consistency in the use of terminology and data elements for sexual violence. Without consistency, we cannot monitor and track trends for sexual violence to determine the scope of the problem.... Better quality and timely incidence and prevalence estimates can be useful for a wide audience, including policymakers, researchers, public health practitioners, victim advocates, service providers, and media professionals."

"If the recommended data elements can be uniformly recorded and the data made available to numerous users, then btter estimates of the incidence and prevalence of IPV can be obtained and problems such as data incompatibility and high costs of collecting, linking, and using the data can be substantially reduced."

Uniform definitions are provided for:

• Involved Parties and Relationships Between Them
• Violence and Associated Terms
• Terms Associated with the Consequences of Violence

The 50 data elements are organized into 4 major sections:

Presents 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

Includes information about the Uniform Crime Reporting System (UCRS), the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAW), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the National Family Violence Survey (NFVS).

This resource page features a compilation of publicly-accessible online data sets on violence against women. National, state, and local data sets tables include live links to data sets, annotations, and related information.

This report offers a glimpse into the ongoing violence against women in Darfur and includes statistics and short stories from survivors. It concludes by giving recommendations for stopping the rapes in Darfur and in the conflicts throughout the world.