NIJ's Program of Domestic Violence Research Collaborative Efforts to Build Knowledge Guided by Safety for Victims and Accountability of Perpetrators

• NCJ Number: 245948
• Journal: Violence Against Women Volume: 19 Issue: 6 Dated: June 2013 Pages: 713-736
• Author(s): Bernard Auchter; Bethany L. Backes
• Date Published: June 2013
• Length: 24 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The primary focus of the National Institute of Justice's NIJ's Violence Against Women VAW research and evaluation program has been domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence IPV.

Abstract

The primary focus of the National Institute of Justice's NIJ's Violence Against Women VAW research and evaluation program has been domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence IPV. The program has supported over 200 studies that have centered on definition and measurement, victims and perpetrators, children, contexts and consequences of domestic violence, and civil and criminal justice interventions and processes responding to these crimes. Funding approaches in the program have employed grants for research and evaluation, demonstration programs with partner agencies, joint funding of research through interagency agreements, and collaborations with agencies and organizations sharing common objectives. Results have influenced policy and practices, particularly results from those studies conducted by researcher-practitioner collaborations. NIJ's success in the development and progress of this program is attributed to the initial vision that included researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in an ongoing discourse about what is known and needs to be known. The terms domestic violence and IPV are used interchangeably throughout the article. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage.