Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This Applied Research paper reviews and critiques the existing literature on economic abuse experienced by domestic violence survivors and selected economic empowerment programs designed to address such abuse and its aftermath.

This article offers an overview of the consequenses of trauma to the eye that may be suffered by victims of abuse, highlighting the connection between domestic violence and glaucoma. It urges appropriate screening and intervention for eye care providers.

This publication, which was supported by the National Institute of Justice, discusses what partner stalking is and provides statistics.

This web-conference was designed to help organizations assess their capacity for prevention program effectiveness.

This charter represents the collaborative agreement among partners of the Domestic Violence and Mental Health Collaboration Project. The charter includes agreements on mission and values, roles and responsibilities, decision-making, conflict resolution, communications, and confidentiality.

This guide is divided into two main sections. The first section outlines existing laws. The second section outlines proposed legislation on this topic. Each of these sections is further divided into those laws or bills specific to domestic violence and those laws or bills that relate to crime victims more generally.

This paper examines domestic violence reporting in a community in New Zealand struck by a snow storm. Issues that arose from a lack of planning or policy are discussed, and suggestions are made for improving emergency planning.

The guidebook assists campus administrators in assessment, development, and delivery of consistent and appropriate plans and protocols to prepare for the possibility that sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking will occur among students, faculty, and staff on their campuses.

The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics and societal response to financial exploitation that did not co-occur with other forms of elder abuse and compare it to financial exploitations that did occur with other forms of elder abuse, including physical abuse and neglect.

This report presents research findings on Asian battered women's help-seeking from the Criminal Justice system (CJS) and other programs and offers recommendations to the CJS for enhancing their responses to IPV in Asian communities.

This handbook is intended to assist States and other stakeholders in enhancing existing or developing new laws to protect women. Included here are a summary of international and legal policy framework, a model framework for legislation on VAW, and a checklist of steps to be taken when drafting the legislation. *See also: Supplement: Harmful practices Against Women by the United Nations (March 2011)

In this presentation, Jenny Dills, the Prevention Coordinator at the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, guided participants through an activity in which they were asked — from a coalition viewpoint — to think about primary prevention as it relates to victim services, secondary services and tertiary services.