Enhancing Coordinated Community Responses to Reduce Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Violence

Abstract

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a project designed to enhance coordinated community responses by examining recidivism rates. Project enhancements included expanded danger assessment and information sharing among criminal justice practitioners and advocates. When compared to a baseline period, results indicated that offenders had significantly lower rates of recidivism after the project was implemented. There were steady declines in the number of recidivists over 3 years of the project, beginning in the pilot year and decreasing significantly during the intervention years. Logistic regression procedures found two variables that were significantly related to offenders not having recidivated during all years of the study: the offender having been court mandated to attend the Men's Nonviolence Program and the offender having completed the program. There was evidence to support the use by probation officers of a danger assessment tool to predict recidivism

Health Care Providers’ Experience with a Protocol for the Identification, Treatment, and Referral of Human-Trafficking Victims

“…A lack of local services, or a lack of trauma-informed and prepared local providers, can pose an ethical quandry for healthcare professionals because it could endanger or harm a victim to be identified but then receive inadequate follow-up help. One possibility is that providers adapt the "coordinated community response" model that domestic violence providers have used throughout the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 U.S. (Shepard, Falk, & Elliott, 2002;Shorey, Tirone, & Stuart, 2014). More information about the coordinated community response can be found here:…”

Counselors' Attributions of Blame Toward Female Survivors of Battering

“…For women seeking services in support of successfully leaving an abusive relationship, counseling is a commonly recommended intervention (Dienemann, Glass, Hanson, & Lunsford, 2007), and the response to battering for the past 35 years has focused primarily on providing shelter and counseling for women and children living in violent situations (Shepard, Falk, & Elliott, 2002). Many women have identified social support, personal validation, engaging in self-care, and reaching out to others as actions that were helpful in the leaving process.…”

Risk assessment of intimate partner violence in a police setting : reliability and predictive accuracy

“…Five of these studies focused on Swedish police settings Svalin et al, 2017b; and one on an Australian police setting . In three of the studies, the risk assessments had been conducted by probation officers or correction institutional staff (in Canada and the USA) (Hilton et al, 2010;Shepard et al, 2002;, and in the treatment study, the IPV risk assessments had been carried out by master's level clinician/s (in the USA) (Hendricks et al, 2006). Finally, in one study the assessments had been conducted by forensic psychologists/psychiatrists at a federal evaluation center for violent and sexual offenders in Austria .…”

“…For instance, the police officers in the study by Lauria et al (2017) had not been given any training in the use of the ODARA. Further, the probation officers in the Shepard et al (2002) study had recommended sentences based on their offender risk categorization, and in a survey presented in the study they expressed their satisfaction regarding the training they had received in sentencing recommendations. However, the interventions had nonetheless been implemented inconsistently.…”

“…For instance, and Shepard et al (2002) compared the recidivism rates for different risk groups/categories. The first study compared the recidivism rates between the low-, medium-and high-risk groups for imminent/acute risk of IPV and severe/fatal IPV risk.…”