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Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Should Feel Safe Seeking Police Help, Not Shame, Hostility, or Indifference
The article advocates that discriminatory attitudes negatively affect the response that survivors receive from police. Most survivors indeed stop reaching out to the police for help altogether.
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#1 How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children?
This fact sheet is #1 in a series of 10 sheets written to help you understand how children may react to domestic violence, and how to help them to feel safe and valued and develop personal strength.
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Supporting high-risk victims of domestic violence: a review of Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs)
This report presents the key findings of a review of Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC), made in order to improve understanding of how MARACs are working and potential areas of developments.
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Domestic violence perpetrator programmes. Steps towards change 2015.
Project Mirabal seeks to answer the following questions: - Do domestic violence perpetrator programmes (DVPPs) actually work in reducing men’s violence and abuse and increasing the freedom of women and children? - How do we hold more perpetrators to account, since even if DVPPs do work, their limited capacity means the majority of men do not access them and criminal justice interventions alone are clearly not creating the change that all stakeholders seek?
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Testing the Effectiveness of an IPV Intervention
The Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) is an innovative intervention that occurs at the scene of a policeinvolved IPV incident and provides risk assessment, followed by advocacy services, for victim survivors who are at high risk of being killed by their intimate partners. This research tests the effectiveness of such an intervention.
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Putting women first: Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Research on Domestic Violence Against Women
World Health Organization has developed the following recommendations regarding the ethical conduct of domestic violence research. The guidelines focus on the specific ethical and safety issues associated with planning and conducting research on this topic.
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Money matters. Research into the extent and nature of financial abuse within intimate relationships in the UK
The Co-operative Bank and Refuge commissioned a nationally representative survey in order to lift the lid on the extent of financial abuse in the UK. This report seeks to establish the true scale of financial abuse as it occurs within intimare relationship in the UK.
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Domestic Violence Warning signs for the workplace
The Domestic Violence Death Review Committee listed some warning signs to recognize that a colleague may be involved in an abusive relationship. It also identified the top-risk factors for domestic homicide.
