The Value of Coordinated Community Responses*

Uekert, Brenda K.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2003.tb00029.x

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“…For such an approach to work there must be a shift in focus from inside to outside the criminal justice process and a shared commitment from all those agencies who engage with victims and their families -from police and judiciary to healthcare and voluntary and community sector support workers. Our research findings support the views of Uekert (2003) who argues that effective coordinated community responses to domestic violence require two things: firstly, active and engaged stakeholders and secondly, consensus amongst those stakeholders on the most appropriate responses to domestic violence in their communities. To this we could usefully add that a supportive and community-based approach to domestic violence also requires that we treat victims as people, not cases, and take account of the complex realities of their daily lives.…”

Section: Implications For Policysupporting

confidence: 89%

Understanding Victim Retraction in Cases of Domestic Violence: Specialist Courts, Government Policy, and Victim‐Centred Justice

Robinson¹,

Cook

2006

Contemporary Justice Review

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Victim retraction is almost universally viewed by criminal justice officials as a problematic outcome in cases of domestic violence, consequently policy initiatives have been designed to increase support to victims in the hope that more will decide to continue with their cases instead of retracting their statements. However our understanding of the various causes and full consequences of retraction remains limited. Using data from five Specialist Domestic Violence Courts (SDVCs) in England and Wales, we analysed a sample of 216 domestic violence cases to assess the relative influence of victim characteristics, offence characteristics, features of case processing, and evidence available from case files on the decision to retract. Despite the innovative courts, each embedded in strong multi-agency partnerships, half of domestic violence victims still chose to retract. The policy implications of these results are discussed in the context of current British government initiatives designed to 'Narrow the Justice Gap' and 'Bring Offenders to Justice' while at the same attempting to locate the victim "at the heart of the criminal justice system."

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Section: Implications For Policysupporting

confidence: 89%

Understanding Victim Retraction in Cases of Domestic Violence: Specialist Courts, Government Policy, and Victim‐Centred Justice

Robinson¹,

Cook

2006

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…According to Uekert (2003), CCRTs require key stakeholders who are active participants that can come to consensus about the nature of the response to crimes against women. While many colleges recognize the value of an internal response team to effectively and comprehensively address sexual assault on their campuses, the results of this exploratory study suggest that a regional campus network focused on sexual assault policy and prevention may also be a valuable resource for staff and students.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It became clear that the community response would be more effective if entities worked together on a multidisciplinary team to share information, promote community awareness, and develop response protocols that prioritize victim safety and offender accountability (Danis, 2006). Research demonstrates that CCRT/SART models are for the most part effective, but more empirical research is needed (Greeson & Campbell, 2012;Greeson et al, 2016;Shorey et al, 2014;Uekert, 2003).…”

Section: Coordinated Community Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Benefits and Challenges of a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault

McGann¹,

Palmer

Thomas³

et al. 2020

Health Educ Behav

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To respond to the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses, many postsecondary institutions have instituted campus climate surveys, strengthened sexual assault misconduct policies, and created sexual assault task forces to coordinate entities within the institutional setting. However, few colleges and universities have engaged with regional networks to exchange resources, research, and innovative practices across campuses. This exploratory study applies the theoretical framework of social exchange theory to examine the necessary infrastructure for a regional network to enhance campus policies and prevention programs related to sexual assault, and the efficacy of providing formal and informal opportunities for information sharing. Interviews were conducted with 10 staff and students from seven of the nine campuses in the network. The sample includes representatives from one large public university, two historically Black colleges, a community college, and three private universities, one of which is faith based. Results indicate that there are several benefits and a few challenges for college campuses that participate in a regional network. Primary benefits include resource and information exchange, as well as new opportunities for student leadership and collaboration across campuses. Some challenges include staff turnover and limited time to devote to the network, as well as distance between some campuses. Based on these findings, it is recommended that universities consider building informal or formal alliances with regional colleges for mutual benefit.

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“…103-322, 108 Stat. 1902 and the funding of community coordinated response units (Uekert 2003, Cho & Wilke 2005 continue to show that there has not been a marked improvement in the efficacy of the criminal justice response since 1994 (Garner & Maxwell 2009).…”

Section: Criminalizing Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 96%

The Nexus of Domestic Violence Reform and Social Science: From Instrument of Social Change to Institutionalized Surveillance

Bumiller

2010

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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This review examines the relationship between social science research and domestic violence activism. It explores how the feminist conception of domestic violence, as formulated early in the movement, has had a resounding influence on the development of both theory and practice. The review demonstrates how social science research has often followed uncritically the path set out by anti-domestic violence activists. It provides an examination of how studies of the efficacy of legal sanctions fail to raise questions about the consequences of these interventions into private lives. The review also considers how the feminist conception of domestic violence has led to unresolved scholarly debates about the frequency and attributes of women's violence as compared to men's. In addition, it shows that the failure of feminism's explanatory framework to guide theory and practice has contributed to the triumph of a gender-neutral understanding of the problem and its reformulation as intimate partner violence. Consequently, the field has seen the growth of applied social science that has adopted a gender-neutral framework and relied upon the mechanisms of universal screening and risk management to address domestic violence. Finally, the value of ethnographic approaches are considered, particularly in regard to their potential to open the field to broader issues about social control, local culture, and inequality and their relation to the persistence of domestic violence as a social problem.

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The Value of Coordinated Community Responses*

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Understanding Victim Retraction in Cases of Domestic Violence: Specialist Courts, Government Policy, and Victim‐Centred Justice

Understanding Victim Retraction in Cases of Domestic Violence: Specialist Courts, Government Policy, and Victim‐Centred Justice

The Benefits and Challenges of a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault

The Nexus of Domestic Violence Reform and Social Science: From Instrument of Social Change to Institutionalized Surveillance

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