Models of Community Coordination in Partner Violence Cases : A Multi-Side Comparative Analysis, Final Report

By Worden, Alissa Pollitz

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Title:	Models of Community Coordination in Partner Violence Cases : A Multi-Side Comparative Analysis, Final Report
Author:	Worden, Alissa Pollitz
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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 Worden, A. P. (n.d.). Models of Community Coordination in Partner Violence Cases : A Multi-Side Comparative Analysis, Final Report. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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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
Table 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