Victim services for domestic violence.

2011 ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cris M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Victim Services

scholarly journals Envisioning Future Directions: Conversations With Leaders in Domestic and Sexual Assault Advocacy, Policy, Service, and Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn W. White ◽  
Holly C. Sienkiewicz ◽  
Paige Hall Smith
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
Assault Victims ◽  
Future Direction

This article delves into the views of 72 leaders in domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, policy, service, and research to determine their vision for the future direction of the field. Through discussions with experts, we identified numerous strategies necessary to best meet the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims. Common themes focused on the need to (a) examine the context of victims’ and offenders’ experiences; (b) increase cultural competence to adequately provide appropriate victim services and criminal justice responses for underserved, marginalized, and culturally specific populations; (c) increase reliance on victims’ voices; (d) continue to develop partnerships at both the community and the state levels and ensure the role of local communities; (e) expand the concept of successful outcomes that can be reliably and validly assessed; (f) emphasize mixed-methods approaches to address these questions, in recognition that various methods complement each other; and (g) be open to novel or emerging approaches to intervention.

Assessing the Need for Domestic Violence Victim Services in One Rural County

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Edwards Hochstein ◽  
Quint C. Thurman
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Victim Services

Victim Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen S. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
Specialized Education ◽  
And Training

Social workers provide services for crime victims and their families in a variety of settings, including law enforcement, the court systems, corrections, and parole or probation. This entry presents a historical overview of the types of victim-services programs and models that have been developed since the beginning of the 20th century. Social-work roles and interventions in victim-services programs are discussed. The need for specialized education and training in crisis intervention, domestic violence, and child abuse is addressed, along with recent challenges and innovations in the field of victim services.

A Review of the Effects of the Violence Against Women Act on Law Enforcement

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Wesley G. Jennings ◽  
Ráchael A. Powers ◽  
Nicholas M. Perez
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Crime Reduction ◽  
Victim Advocacy ◽  
Violence Against Women Act ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
Police Responses ◽  
Victim Reporting ◽  
And Training

One of the goals of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was to improve law enforcement responses to sexual and domestic violence by providing funding to expand prevention, enhance investigations, and increase victim services. Since VAWA’s enactment, police responses to these crimes have evolved, including officer responses to victims and offenders, and various agency operations. This article highlights some noteworthy changes in law enforcement related to facilitating victim reporting, enhancing victim advocacy and services, crime reduction and investigative tools, supplementing personnel and training, and encouraging multiagency collaborations as a result of VAWA.

The Evolution of Services for Male Domestic Violence Victims at WEAVE

Partner Abuse ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaux Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
Domestic Violence Victims ◽  
Peer Counselor ◽  
Domestic Violence Services ◽  
Trauma Histories

Domestic violence victim service providers are challenged to create programs that are responsive to a broad range of clients who are diverse in gender and sexual orientation and present with a spectrum of abuse histories and complex co-occurring conditions. The scope of victim services needs to be examined and adjusted in order to better address the complicated issues that these clients present. This necessitates expanding beyond the feminist-based peer-counselor model that most domestic violence agencies are founded upon and integrating a gender-inclusive clinical approach that addresses the relational dynamics of the abuse and underlying psychotherapeutic issues. WEAVE, Sacramento County’s primary provider of domestic violence services, is successfully modifying its culture and programs to be more responsive to clients of both genders accessing services with various trauma histories.

scholarly journals Sheltered-In-Place: Domestic Violence during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Police Services ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
Domestic Violence Victims ◽  
Canadian Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
Domestic Disturbances ◽  
At Home

March 2020 marked the closure of thousands of workplaces, schools and other services to comply with government-issued lockdowns to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the Canadian population. While the intent of the stay-at-home orders was to provide safety for the surrounding communities from the pandemic, many victims of domestic abuse soon found themselves confined to the root of their trauma for the sake of public health. Dubbed the “pandemic within a pandemic” by the media, 54% of responding victim services have reported an increase in the number of served domestic violence victims between mid-March and early July of 2020 [1,2], and police-reported calls for domestic disturbances have also increased 12%, according to data compiled from 17 police services across Canada [3].

scholarly journals Generic personal safety applications: empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Turgoose ◽  
Ruth McKie
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Safety Applications ◽  
Domestic Violence And Abuse

Bespoke and generic domestic violence and abuse (DVA) personal safety applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>There are limits to the use of generic personal safety applications in domestic violence and abuse support including, risks of entrapment through technological affiliated abuse, reinforcing victim stereotypes, and being financially inaccessible to victims of domestic violence and abuse.</li><br /><li>Independent evaluations are integral to avoid organisational responses where generic personal safety applications may be ineffectual, or escalate danger by failing to facilitate victim safety.</li></ul>

The Reported Availability of U.S. Domestic Violence Services to Victims Who Vary by Age, Sexual Orientation, and Gender

Partner Abuse ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise A. Hines ◽  
Emily M. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Victim Services ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Underserved Groups

Grassroots movements during the 1970s established several types of emergency services for battered women seeking to find refuge from or leave an abusive relationship. As time went by, the range of services offered by these agencies grew to include counseling, legal services, outreach, and other services, and battered women can now access over 2,000 domestic violence (DV) agencies throughout the United States for assistance. At the same time, these services have come under increasing scrutiny for their inability or unwillingness to provide their existing services to some populations of intimate partner violence (IPV) victims. In this article, we focus on DV agencies’ ability to provide their services to various populations that have documented evidence of being underserved due to their age, gender, and/or sexual orientation. We present information on the percentage of agencies that report being able to provide victim-related services to each of these groups. We also consider various regional, state, and agency characteristics that may predict the availability of services to these underserved groups. Overall, agencies report that adolescents and men are the least likely groups to which they are able to provide their victim services. Results are discussed utilizing a human rights perspective that stresses that all IPV victims, regardless of age, sexual orientation, or gender, should have access to services provided by DV agencies.

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