Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This study provides empirical data on cases of officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV). It identifies and describes cases in which police were arrested for criminal offenses associated with an incident of family and/or domestic violence through a content analysis of published newspaper articles. The study includes a discussion regarding OIDV police crime and policy implications.

This manual includes information on understanding trauma, responding to trauma survivors, trauma-informed care best practices, trauma-informed protocols (for hotline calls, intakes, support groups, exit interviews, safety planning and parenting), and vicarious trauma.

This article aims to shed light on decision making trends and provide greater transparency to the asylum system. This article argues that without clear guidance, the United States will continue to shirk its international obligations to protect women who present bona fide claims for relief.

This brochure provides a broad overview of the legal rights of immigrant victims of domestic violence.

This guide provides ideas, best practices and strategies for domestic and sexual violence service providers and faith leaders to build partnerships that support older victims and survivors.

All relationships live on a range, somewhere between healthy, unhealthy and abusive. This interactive Relationship Spectrum helps teens and young adults determine how parts of their relationship rank on the scale.

Many countries have reported increases in relationship violence in the wake of disasters. However, there is a research gap on why this happens, and how increased violence may relate to disaster experiences. Women's Health Goulburn North East undertook the first Australian research into this phenomenon, interviewing 30 women and 47 disaster workers in Victoria after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.

These guidelines aim to provide evidence-based guidance to health-care providers on the appropriate responses to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women, including clinical interventions and emotional support. They also seek to raise awareness among health-care providers and policymakers of gender-based violence in order to improve health-sector response to the problem.

This fact sheet includes statistics spanning from 1998 to 2010 on the number of women murdered by an intimate partner, the use of firearms in the commission of intimate partner homicides, and the types of firearms used in the commission of these homicides.

Document provides rural domestic and sexual abuse service providers with a variety of tools, strategies, and resources to effectively respond to the unique challenges of abuse in later life cases.

This document provides steps to help reduce anxiety.

The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013), combined with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), was signed into law on March 7, 2013. This practice advisory provides an overview of substantive changes and technical fixes both in VAWA and TVPRA as well as practice pointers for attorneys and advocates on how to work with these new changes.