Federal Funds Provided by the U. S. Department of Justice Final Report

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Title:	Federal Funds Provided by the U. S. Department of Justice Final Report
Author:	Government Printing Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
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Excerpt
Excerpt: Coordinated community intervention is widely heralded as the key to achieving better outcomes in cases involving violence within families, particularly violence between partners. On the surface at least, the appeal of coordination is intuitive: people working together from different (and sometimes competing) bases of power and with different kinds of resources are - more likely to improve the prospects, for victims than are criminal justice agents or victim service providers working in isolation. However, although researchers and practitioners nearly unanimously recommend greater investment in community coordination strategies, there has been very little systematic observation of the process, problems, and products of local coordination efforts. The purpose of this project is to explore the dimensionality of community responses to domestic violence, and, through comparative case studies of five communities, to develop and begin to test hypotheses about the efficacy of different coordination experiences.

Table of Contents
able of Contents Chapter 1 : Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dimensions of Coordinated Community Intervention: What We Know About Process and Outcomes ........................... 7 Goals and Objectives of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Research Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Chapter 2: The Dimensionality of Local Criminal Justice Practices and Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Intervention Strategies at the Community Level: Criminal Justice Policies and Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Summary and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Cataloguing System and Community Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ! - Chapter 3: Toward a Characterization of Five Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Key Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Characteristics of the Study Sites: A Closer Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Findings from Qualitative Research in the Study Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Findings from Qualitative Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Summary‘; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Chapter 4: Comparison of Community Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Incidents . . . . 99 Case Data From Five Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Comparing Communities: Population-Based Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Summary and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 5: Conclusions and Directions for Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 SummaryofFindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Conclusions and Implications for Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Appendix A: Survey Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Appendix B: Case Data Collection Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182