Chicago Women's Health Risk Study : Risk of Serious Injury or Death in Intimate Violence : A Collaborative Research Project

By Block, Carolyn R.

Book Id: WPLBN0000660844
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Chicago Women's Health Risk Study : Risk of Serious Injury or Death in Intimate Violence : A Collaborative Research Project
Author:	Block, Carolyn R.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Block, C. R. (n.d.). Chicago Women's Health Risk Study : Risk of Serious Injury or Death in Intimate Violence : A Collaborative Research Project. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: Collaborators: Though most of the collaborators of the Chicago Women?s Health Risk Project were silent partners in writing this report, they were equal partners in the project. They include Olga Becker, Nanette Benbow, .Jacquelyn Campbell, Debra Clemmens, James Coldren, Alicia Contreras, Eugene Craig,? Roy J. Dames, Alice J. Dan, Christine Devitt, Edmund R. Donoghue, Barbara Enget, Dickelle Fonda, Charmaine Hamer, Kris Hamilton, Eva Hernandez, Tracy Irwin, Mary V. Jensen, Holly Johnson, Teresa Johnson, Cmdice Kam, Debra Kirby, Katherine Klimisch, Christine Kosmos, Leslie Landis, Susan Lloyd, Gloria Lewis, Christine Martin, Rosa Martinez, Judith McFarlane, Sara Naureckas, lliana Oliveros, Angela Moore Parmley, Stephanie Riger, Kim Riordan, Roxanne Roberts, Martine Sagan, Daniel Sheridan, Wendy Taylor, Richard Tolman, Gail Walker, Carole Warshaw and Steven Whitman. Principal Author: Carolyn Rebecca Block, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

Table of Contents
Contents Decision to interview more than one proxy respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Decision to interview women homicide offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Additional consultants and staff . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Re-conception of the proxy study methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Assuring Subjects' Safety. Privacy and Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Follow-up Safety Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Proxy Study Safety Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Procedures to Preserve Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Collaboration Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLINIC AND HOSPITAL STUDY METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Clinic and Hospital Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Site Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Screening Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Sample Screening Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Screening Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Was There an Interview Selection Bias by Age or Language? . . . . . . . . . 42 Woman'sAge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Woman'sLanguage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Screening Status Versus Interview Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Did the CWHRS Meet its Sample Goals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Questionnaire Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Spanish Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Calendar History of Incidents and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Measures and Scales Built into the Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Violent Incident Severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 DangerAssessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Typeofunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Abusing Partner (Name. Name2. Name3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Relationship and Co-Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .