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- General Material
September 1999
OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Family Disruption and Delinquency
Publisher(s):This bulletin is part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Development Series, which presents findings from the Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency. This bulletin discusses findings that indicate the composition of families is one aspect of family life that is consistently associated with delinquency.
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- General Material
May 1999
Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women, Chapter 1: Overview of Domestic Violence and Battered Immigrant Issues
Publisher(s):This chapter provides information about domestic violence in immigrant communities, including the power and control dynamics and the barriers faced by immigrant women in accessing services for domestic violence.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Discusses children's problems associated with exposure and factors that influence the degree of those problems. The author offers a critique of the research methods used to study child witnessing and explores policy implications of the data on this issue.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
Evaluating Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document explores mechanisms for coordination of community responses to domestic violence, examines research regarding various components of community responses, and highlights studies that evaluate the effectiveness coordinated community responses.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman Abuse
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
An examination of the research on the overlap between child abuse and woman battering. The author explores the dynamics of overlapping violence and discusses the limitations of the research on this topic.
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- General Material
April 1999
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Domestic Violence in Communities of Color
Publisher(s):This article explores the complexities of domestic violence in communities of color, and discusses the impact of intersecting oppressions.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
Evaluations of Advocacy Efforts to End Intimate Male Violence Against Women
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document discusses four evaluations of community advocacy efforts and identifies the need for both individual and systems-focused advocacy in order to create an effective and comprehensive community response to battered women.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 1999
A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):The Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, along with a workgroup of various MN sexual violence prevention organizations, agencies and individuals created this kit to support community sexual violence prevention efforts.
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- General Material
January 1999
Community Development & Sexual Violence Prevention: Creating Partnerships for Social Change
Publisher(s):Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'
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- General Material
January 1999
Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide: Assessment of the likelihood of domestic violence
Publisher(s):This brochure describes the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) and its ability to help determine the degree to which an individual poses a domestic violence threat to his/her partner, children, another family member, or another person involved.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1999
New Challenges for the Battered Women's Movement: Building Collaborations and Improving Public Policy for Poor Women
Publisher(s):This paper advocates the adoption of an agenda that recognizes the importance of safety, justice and economic resources for women and their families and urges that advocates pay particular attention to the concerns and interests of poor women.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1999
The Austin Community Domestic Violence Project: A Blueprint for Raising Community Awareness and Promoting Local Action
Publisher(s):Describes a community organizing project that worked within an African American community to mobilize and train citizen leaders and business gatekeepers to safely and effectively intervene in domestic violence cases and raise neighborhood awareness.