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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 relationship between childhood maltreatment and subsequent delinquency, including sexual violence.

This document reports on the current status of standards for batterer intervention programs in each U.S. state, describes the common elements of standards, and explores the positive and negative aspects of standards. It includes a state-by-state chart.

This document highlights some of the legal and cultural trends surrounding custody and visitation decisions and identifies a strong need to consider more carefully the dynamics of domestic violence in these decisions.

This Trainer’s Manual encourages the integration of the sometimes separate fields of health, domestic violence, and culture in the development of health care policies, procedures, practice, and trainings for responding to domestic violence victims. The Trainer's Manual is a companion piece to "Improving the Health Care Responses to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers."

This document highlights the prevalence of violence against women with disabilities, examines abuse interventions for women with disabilities, and offers a critique of studies on abuse and disability. Includes recommendations for research and practice.

This document offers a critique of the Conflict Tactics Scale, a commonly-used measurement instrument designed to estimate the extent of violence against women, examining several limitations and describing the need for multiple measures of woman abuse.

This document describes the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review model and the rationale behind it.

This resource manual provides information about domestic violence and tools for identification and intervention by health care practitioners.

The authors of this article conducted research with women from a wartime military sample to assess exposure to sexual assault and harassment and how these experiences related to the experience of post traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

This paper provides detailed guidance on developing family violence protocols within welfare settings. It is written to assist domestic violence advocates and state administrators implementing PRWORA

This document highlights the differences between two of the largest U.S. surveys that attempt to measure violence against women, and explores the factors that attribute to the differences in incidence rates of violence in each study.

A review of the literature on sex offender treatments was carried out for the High Security Psychiatric Commissioning Board (HSPSCB). The available research is varied in focus, methodology and quality, nevertheless there appears to be grounds for cautious optimism regarding the efficacy of treatment programs aimed at sex offenders. One conclusion of the review is that greater emphasis will need to be given to the idiographic and dynamic features presented by individual offenders in the provision and evaluation of treatment.