National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Content Topic Results

This webpage emphasizes the need to implement pretrial and courthouse safety planning for survivors, and offers recommended steps for creating such a safety plan.

The research examined reasons for moving to other countries for commercial sex work, the social structure of the commercial sex and trafficking business, economic aspects of smuggling, trafficking, and prostitution, and understand the social patterns for these Chinese women.

This article describes the challenges in prosecuting for elder abuse, laws that specifically protect elders, and offers suggestion for improving the handling of elder abuse cases. A collaborative and multidisciplinary approach is emphasized.

This article describes two studies that use scientific criteria to distinguish accidental bruising from abusive bruising. The article also discusses barriers to intervening in or responding to abuse and emphasizes collaboration between prosecutors and victim-witness advocates.

There is a dearth of information to guide best practices in dealing with victims of intimate partner stalking. To help fill this knowledge gap, this study describes the experience of intimate partner stalking, as it occurs over time, addressing a limitation of the largely cross-sectional and retrospective body of research on the topic.

The purpose of this work is to describe to practitioners what the research tells us about domestic violence, including its perpetrators and victims, the impact of current responses to it and, more particularly, the implications of that research for day-to-day, real-world responses to domestic violence by law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges.

Consequently, it is unclear whom law enforcement identifies as stalkers, for what activities, and how the criminal justice system responds to those identified. More important, it is unknown if the under-identification and charging of stalking make any difference, specifically whether or not they compromise victim safety and/or offender accountability. The research was designed to answer the following questions:

The primary goal of the study was to examine the impact of the law on New Jersey as a whole and each county within the state.

This document presents a gender analysis of teen dating violence. The author draws on various studies to examine physical aggression by girls and boys. The authors describe the differences between adult intimate partner violence and teen dating violence and note that applying adult intimate partner violence perspective to teen dating violence is problematic.

This groundbreaking study provides important insights into the role that shelters play in survivors' efforts to escape violence and abuse. Results capture the voices and experiences of over 3,400 shelter residents in 215 programs across eight states.

The finding in particularÑzero tolerance for sexual violence and other predatory behaviorÑwas cited as the foundation for successful programs.

Such analysis can show whether a proposed law is feasible to enforce, and jurisdictions with a residency law already in place can use GIS data in order to assess whether the specified exclusion zones result in a lack of housing options for sex offenders.