Intimate Partner Violence
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Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. | |
Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. | |
No Effects | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
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Program Profile: New Orientation for Reducing Threats to Health from Secretive-problems That Affect Readiness (NORTH STAR) |
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Alcohol, Prescription drugs, Treatment, Military personnel, Crime prevention, Substance abuse | This is a prevention planning and implementation system designed to improve risk and protective factors, and reduce secretive problems, in military communities. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the bases assigned to NORTH STAR and the comparison bases on measures of physical or emotional interpersonal violence/partner abuse, physical or emotional child abuse, hazardous drinking, suicidality, or prescription drug misuse. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander High School Curriculum |
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Stalking, Violent crime, Assault, Dating violence, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | The goal of this bystander-focused, classroom-delivered curriculum is to reduce rates of interpersonal violence among high school students. The program is rated No Effects. The program had no statistically significant impact on various measures of interpersonal violence, victim empathy, and measures of proactive bystander behavior. There was a statistically significant decrease for the treatment group in bystander denial about the role students could play in preventing interpersonal violence. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Explore, Question, Understand, Investigate and Practice, Plan, Succeed (EQUIPS) Domestic Abuse Program (New South Wales, Australia) |
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Crime prevention, Investigations | This program targets behavior changes in men who have committed a domestic violence offense, to reduce their risk of reoffending. The program is rated Promising. Men in the treatment group had statistically significant reductions in their rate of reconvictions and time to both their first violent and general reconvictions, compared with men in the control group. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in general or domestic violence reoffending within 12 months. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: One Love Escalation Workshop for Dating Abuse Prevention in the Military |
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Dating violence, Military personnel, Bullying, Crime prevention | This program involves film and guided discussion to promote bystander behavior related to dating abuse. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups on intervening when a peer was being harmed or physically hurt by an intimate partner, or when a peer was intoxicated or being bullied. The intervention group was statistically significantly more likely to intervene in peer self-harm, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Better Reduction and Assessment of Violence (BRAVE) Intervention (the Netherlands) |
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Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention | This was a system provider–level training for community mental health teams in the Netherlands to improve detection of and response to domestic violence and abuse in patients with mental illness. The program is rated No Effects. There was no statistically significant difference in the rate of detection or referral of current domestic violence and abuse for teams that received the intervention, compared with control teams that did not receive training, at the 12-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Cameras for Intimate-Partner Violence Cases (Phoenix, Ariz.) |
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Evidence, Sensors/Surveillance, Community policing, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Courts, Sentencing, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Arrests, Equipment and technology | This program equips police with on-officer cameras to record contacts with civilians during intimate-partner violence incidents. The program is rated Promising. Camera use was statistically significantly more likely to result in arrests, charges filed, cases furthered, and both guilty pleas and verdicts. There was no statistically significant difference in sentence length. However, there was a statistically significantly greater reduction in case processing time in cases not involving a camera. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: IMpower Program for American Indian Girls |
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Tribal youth, Dating violence, School climate, Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victimization, Tribal, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This was a sexual assault prevention program adapted for American Indian girls that sought to reduce sexual assault victimization and to improve sexual assault resistance skills and self-defense knowledge. The program is rated Promising. Girls who received the intervention reported statistically significantly lower rates of sexual assault and sexual harassment, compared with girls in the comparison group. However, there was no impact on reported rates of physical dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Routine Inquiry About Violence Victimization and Follow-Up Support (Sweden) |
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Girls, Treatment, Victims of crime, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Rape and sexual assault | This is a program for young women in nonemergency health centers in Sweden. It involves routine inquiry about their experiences with violence victimization and offers empowerment strategies for victimized women. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups in self-reported measures of physical violence, sexual violence (touch or penetration), and emotional violence at the 12-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Second Responder Program for Men (Ontario, Canada) |
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Crime prevention, Intimate partner violence, Assault | This is a program for moderate- and high-risk males accused of assaulting their intimate partners. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, program participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of being charged with any new domestic, property, or administrative offense and of having contact with the police. There was no statistically significant difference between groups on likelihood of being charged with a new violent offense. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Strength at Home Couples (SAH-C) Program to Prevent Military Partner Violence |
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Military personnel, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a cognitive–behavioral, trauma-informed group intervention that is designed to prevent relationship conflict and intimate partner violence (IPV) among military couples. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in physical and psychological IPV for the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: SafeCare© |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Case Management, Family reunification, Foster care/child welfare system, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Child protection | This is a home-visitation program that aims to prevent and address factors associated with child abuse and neglect. The program is rated Promising. Parents in the SafeCare group demonstrated statistically significant decreases in depression symptoms and risk of child protective services recidivism, compared with parents in the control group. However, there were no statistically significant differences in the risk of child physical abuse among a sample of American Indian parents. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Real Talk Dating Abuse Intervention |
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Dating violence, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is a dating abuse intervention for youth, ages 15-19, which uses motivational interviewing with the goal of changing self-reported dating abuse perpetration. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences found between the intervention and control groups in any self-reported dating abuse perpetration, including physical, sexual, psychological, and cyber abuse, at the 6-month follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Strength at Home Men's Program (SAH-M) |
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Military personnel, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This program is a cognitive-behavioral, trauma-informed group therapy program for active-duty or former military personnel who have engaged in recent physical intimate partner violence (IPV). The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in physical and psychological IPV for the SAH-M treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Change A Life |
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Children exposed to violence, Intimate partner violence, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18) | A free, interactive online program for adults designed to educate the public about the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence (DV) and improve adults’ self-efficacy in helping children exposed to DV. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant increase in knowledge about DV exposure for both community and university samples, compared with the control groups. There was a statistically significant increase in self-efficacy for only the community sample. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Cautioning and Relationship Abuse (CARA) [Southampton, England] |
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Dating violence, Problem-oriented policing, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Arrests | This was a policing strategy designed to reduce the severity of intimate partner violence and the rearrests of males who had been previously arrested for, or had admitted to, a first domestic violence offense and received a conditional caution. The program is rated Promising. Results indicated a statistically significant reduction in frequency and prevalence of rearrests of persons assigned to the treatment group compared with those assigned to the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Pretrial GPS Supervision of Intimate Partner Violence Defendants (Western Region, United States) |
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Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a court-based, pretrial, GPS supervision intervention for defendants arrested for intimate partner violence offenses. The program is rated No Effects. Program participants showed no statistically significant reductions in risk of rearrests, domestic rearrests, or failure to appear in court. However, the program did show statistically significant reductions in defendants’ risk of failure to appear at meetings with pretrial services. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Foundations of Violence Against Women (VAW) Online Training Course |
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Computers, Dating violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a 4-week online training course for individuals working or planning to work with survivors of intimate partner violence. The course covers a wide range of topics for building a strong, violence against women program and is based on feminist intersectional principles and values. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in the intervention group’s scores on knowledge and attitudes, compared with the wait-list comparison group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Partner Aggression |
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This was an emotional- and behavioral-skills enhancement program targeted at adults who engaged in aggressive behavior with their partners. This group-format program aimed to promote psychological flexibility and thereby decrease aggression in participants. The program is rated Effective. Participants reported less physical and psychological aggression at post-treatment and at the 6-month follow up. These findings were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Moms' Empowerment Program |
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Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Violent crime, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This program provides support for mothers who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). The goal of the program is to assist mothers and ultimately improve their children’s adjustment. The program was rated Promising. Results showed a statistically significant improvement in children’s externalizing behaviors and attitudes about family violence, although there was no effect on children’s internalizing behaviors. Mothers in the program also experienced greater reductions in IPV over time. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Telephone Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Recruited from a Midwestern Pediatric Emergency Department |
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Victimization, Victims of crime, Violent crime | This program provided resources via telephone to women victimized by intimate partner violence (IPV). It provided referrals to community programs, helped participants overcome barriers to obtaining services, and provided social support. The program is rated No Effects. Results showed no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on IPV victimization, feeling vulnerable to someone, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Green Dot Intervention Program |
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Dating violence, Campus Crime, Drug-Related Victimization, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to increase active-bystander behaviors and reduce dating and sexual violence in college and high school students. The program is rated Promising. Students who participated in the program had a statistically significantly greater number of observed and self-reported active-bystander behaviors than students who did not participate. However, there was no statistically significant impact on sexual violence victimization or sexual harassment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Lethality Assessment Program (Oklahoma) |
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Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victim services, Victims of crime | This is a crisis-response program in which police connect female victims of intimate partner violence with a social service provider, via telephone, at the scene of a domestic violence dispute. The program is rated Promising. When compared with the control group, program participants reported experiencing less violence at follow up. Participants were also more likely to receive an order of protection, and to contact domestic violence services. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Social Learning/Feminist Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victimization, Victims of crime, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a 12-session program for adolescent females with a history of exposure to violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used a health-promotion approach to help girls develop healthy relationships. The program is rated Promising. The intervention had a statistically significant impact on reducing physical re-victimization, but not sexual re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Risk Detection/Executive Function Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victims of crime, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a program for adolescent females with a history of violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used mindfulness-based, cognitive interventions to build skills for responding to risky situations (including reasoning and problem solving). The program is rated Promising. The intervention was shown to statistically significantly reduce sexual and physical re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Youth Relationships Project |
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Dating violence, Children exposed to violence, Youth development, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This was a community-based prevention program that targeted youth at risk of becoming involved in abusive relationships. The program was rated Promising. Treatment group youth demonstrated statistically significant reductions in physical abuse perpetration and trauma symptoms and a lower likelihood of emotional abuse and threatening behavior victimization, compared with control group youth. However, there were no differences between groups in threatening behavior perpetration or hostility. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Brief Motivational Interviewing for Dating Aggression |
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Dating violence, Alcohol | This program aims to reduce harmful behavior among young adult couples who are neither married nor cohabitating. It uses a brief counseling method to address ambivalence toward behavioral change and encourage self-motivation for behavioral change. The program is rated Promising. This program showed statistically significant reductions on reports of moderate physical aggression and harmful alcohol consumption, but no statistically significant effects on reports of psychological aggression. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: New York Integrated Domestic Violence Courts |
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Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Diversion, Courts, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention | This program is a problem-solving court that is part of a unified “one family-one judge” model, which means all criminal, family, and matrimonial cases involving the same family are handled by one judge. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in re-arrests and conviction rates when comparing the IDV court cases with traditional family court cases. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: New York's Criminal Domestic Violence Courts |
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Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Diversion, Violent crime | The program is a problem-solving court that operate a specialized caseload for domestic violence-related cases only, and for which eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis. Criminal domestic violence courts tend to be more common throughout the U.S. The program is rated No Effects. The criminal domestic violence courts in New York statistically significantly reduced case-processing time, but there was no statistically significant impact on recidivism. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Ending Violence |
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Dating violence, School safety, Coping, School climate, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a school-based education program designed to teach students the warning signs of dating violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant impacts on perceptions of helpfulness in others, likelihood of seeking help, perpetration, victimization, and abusive or fearful dating experiences. However, there was a statistically significant increase in knowledge of dating violence in treatment group students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Project |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Drug testing, Parole, Probation, Alcohol, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Corrections, Intimate partner violence, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement | This program seeks to reduce the recidivism of persons previously convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI) through intensive testing and monitoring of drug and alcohol consumption. The main goal is to encourage sobriety of convicted persons 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The program is rated Promising. The program led to a statistically significant reduction in repeat DUI and domestic violence arrests, but did not impact first-time DUI arrests or traffic crashes. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: It's Your Game... Keep It Real |
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School safety, Dating violence, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime | A health education program for 7th and 8th graders designed to delay sexual behavior and promote healthy dating relationships. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to statistically significantly reduce emotional and physical dating violence victimization. However, the program did not have a statistically significant effect on physical perpetration of dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Rochester (N.Y.) Domestic Violence Court Judicial Monitoring |
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Assault, Domestic violence courts, Problem-solving courts, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This program was designed to provide judicial monitoring of people convicted of domestic violence through frequent court appearances before a judge. The goal was to ensure compliance with program requirements and deter future violence and re-abuse of victims. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention group and control group in rearrests, attendance at court-ordered programs, or completion of programs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Shifting Boundaries (Classroom Curriculum and Schoolwide Intervention) |
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Dating violence, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Schools, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This dual intervention aims to reduce peer violence and sexual harassment in middle schoolers by emphasizing consequences and increasing surveillance of unsafe areas. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had statistically significant reductions in sexual victimization and in violence victimization and perpetration compared with those in the control group. There were no statistically significant effects on sexual harassment perpetration, or knowledge, attitudes, or intentions. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Culturally Focused Batterer Counseling (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Domestic violence courts, Intimate partner violence, Problem-solving courts, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Assault | This is a cognitive–behavioral counseling program specifically designed for African American men arrested for domestic violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups in reassault rates. However, treatment group participants were statistically significantly more likely to be rearrested for domestic violence, compared with control group participants who received conventional counseling. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Second Responders Program (Redlands, CA) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Crisis response | The program model enlists second responders to make home visits to try to help victims find long-term solutions to help repeat incident victims of family violence including intimate partner abuse, abuse within families or households, and elder abuse. The program is rated No Effects. Overall, the evidence found no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups on prevalence of and frequency of new domestic incidents and time to failure. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Kids Club |
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Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Trauma, Treatment, Violent crime, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | A multicomponent approach designed to improve behavioral and mental health in children exposed to intimate partner violence by targeting their knowledge and attitudes about family violence, their emotional adjustment, and their social behavior. The program is rated No Effects. There was no statistically significant improvement for the treatment group in measures of children’s internalizing or externalizing problems or their attitudes about family violence, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Community Advocacy Project |
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Dating violence, Violent crime | This community-based advocacy intervention seeks to extend and improve social support to women experiencing domestic/intimate partner violence. The program is rated Promising. Participants showed a statistically significant increase in accessing community resources, engaging in activities to meet their needs, in quality of life, and a reduction in re-abuse. However, there were no statistically significant impacts on continued involvement with their assailants, and perceived social support. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Nurse-Family Partnership |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Children exposed to violence, Treatment, Home visiting, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Child abuse, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a home visitation program for low-income, first-time mothers designed to improve family functioning. The program is rated Effective. Treatment families reported statistically significant decreases in child abuse/neglect and domestic violence and improvements in home learning environments, compared with control families. Treatment children reported statistically significant decreases in substance use, compared with control children, but there were no differences in behavior problems. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Project Support |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Trauma, Treatment, Home visiting, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Crisis response | This program is designed to provide support to battered mothers and reduce conduct problems in their children. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant effects in favor of the treatment group on measures of children’s conduct problems, happiness, and mothers’ aggression toward children. However, there were no statistically significant effects on children’s internalizing behaviors, mothers’ return to abusive partners, or recurrence of physical violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit |
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Assault, Dating violence, Evidence, Witnesses, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This program consists of a specialized police unit, which was designed to prevent recidivism among people convicted of domestic violence offenses and to assist victims of domestic violence through the process of prosecution and recovery. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the control group, who were assigned to standard patrol. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander for College Students |
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Situational crime prevention, Trauma, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victimization, Campus, Schools | This program seeks to increase prosocial attitudes and behaviors toward and awareness of risky behaviors and precursors to sexual victimization among potential bystanders and third-person witnesses. The program is rated Promising. Intervention participants showed statistically significant improvements in knowledge of sexual violence and bystander attitudes, behavior, efficacy, and likelihood of helping friends, and a reduction in rape-myth acceptance, compared with nonparticipants. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Fourth R Curriculum |
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Dating violence, School safety, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Drugs | This interactive classroom curriculum is designed to reduce youth dating violence by addressing bullying, unsafe sexual behavior, and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. The program had small, statistically significant effects on decreasing dating violence and sexual harassment/assault victimization. However, there were no significant effects on sexual harassment/assault perpetration, peer violence perpetration or victimization, sexual activity, substance use, or prosocial attitudes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Safe Dates |
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Dating violence, Juvenile health, Sex offenders, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Intimate partner violence, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a prevention program for middle and high school students, which is designed to stop or prevent dating violence perpetration and victimization. This program is rated Effective. The intervention group showed statistically significant reductions in psychological, physical, and sexual abuse perpetration, and physical abuse victimization, compared with the control group at the 4-year follow up; however, there were no significant differences between groups on sexual abuse victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Empowerment Training for Abused Pregnant Women in China |
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Assault, Dating violence, Coping, Minorities, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Mental health | This is an empowerment training program for pregnant women in China who have been abused. The program is rated Promising. For the experimental group, there were statistically significant declines in levels of psychological abuse, minor physical violence, physical functioning, physical and emotional role limitation, and postnatal depression. However, there were no statistically significant effects on severe physical violence, sexual abuse, and other health-related, quality-of-life measures. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial |
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Practice Profile: Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) |
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Diversion, Pretrial, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This practice involves psychoeducational and cognitive–behavioral approaches to reduce the recidivism for individuals who have committed intimate-partner violence offenses. The practice is rated No Effects for reducing either official or victim reports of repeated intimate-partner violence. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Parenting Programs for Teenage Mothers and Their Children |
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This practice includes interventions aimed at helping teenage parents improve their functioning as a parent and in understanding the developmental needs of their child. This practice is rated Effective for improving parental interactions with one’s child. This practice is rated No Effects for affecting measures of parental attitudes, including parents’ appropriate developmental expectation of children, empathic awareness, nonbelief in corporal punishment, and lack of parent–child role reversal.
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Practice Profile: Preventive Child Maltreatment Programs |
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Children exposed to violence, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Crisis response | Preventive child maltreatment programs are designed to prevent physical child abuse or neglect by educating expectant and new parents in parenting skills, coping with stressors, and stimulating child development. This practice is rated Effective for preventing child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Domestic Violence Courts |
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Domestic violence courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Drugs | This specialty court practice follows the problem-solving court model, and is for individuals charged with domestic violence. In addition to judicial oversight, participants may receive other programming to address substance use or mental health issues or receive referrals to batterer intervention programs. Partnerships are established with judges, mental health workers, social services, and police. The practice is rated Promising for reducing general recidivism and violent, domestic recidivism. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Programs to Reduce Dating and Sexual Violence for Youth and Young Adults |
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Dating violence, School safety, Campus Crime, School climate, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Rape and sexual assault | This practice involves a range of prevention and intervention programs that are designed to address problems associated with dating violence for youth and young adults. The practice is rated Effective for reducing the perpetration of dating violence and improving dating violence knowledge and attitudes. The practice is rated No Effects for reducing dating and sexual violence victimization, reducing sexual violence perpetration, and for improving bystander behaviors. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Advocacy Interventions for Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence |
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Violent crime, Victims of crime, Victimization, Crisis response | This practice uses advocacy interventions to empower women who have experienced intimate partner violence. The goals of advocacy interventions include helping abused women to access necessary services, reducing or preventing incidents of abuse, and improving women’s physical and psychological health. The practice is rated No Effects for reducing physical abuse. (This Practice was originally rated Promising. See “Other Information” in the practice profile for further discussion of that change). Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Interventions for Persons Who Committed Intimate-Partner Violence: Duluth Model |
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Recidivism, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This practice employs a feminist psychoeducational approach with group-facilitated exercises to change abusive and threatening behavior in males who engage in domestic violence. The practice is rated Effective for reducing recidivism with respect to violent offenses and Promising in reducing victimization. The results found fewer partner reports of violence in the intervention group relative to the comparison groups. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Interventions for Persons Who Committed Intimate-Partner Violence: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
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Recidivism, Crime prevention, Victimization, Violent crime, Victims of crime | The practice includes interventions that are designed to reduce partner violence by identifying and changing the thought processes leading to violent acts and teaching new skills to control and change their behavior. These interventions use cognitive behavioral therapy as applied in a domestic violence setting. The practice is rated No Effects in recidivism outcomes for violent offenses and No Effects in reducing victimization. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Second Responder Programs |
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Elder abuse, Problem-oriented policing, Older Victims, Victimization, Crime prevention, Victims of crime, Crisis response | These programs consist of home visits by a crisis response team to follow-up on the initial police response to reports of family violence. The practice is rated No Effect for violent offenses —s the odds of reporting new abuse to the police were slightly higher for households that were assigned to receive a home visit through a second responder program. The practice is rated No Effects on victimization (i.e. the intervention had no statistically significant effect on victims' reports of abuse). Date Posted: |