Research and Statistics
Research and Statistics
Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perspectives of Safety and the Risk of Firearms
BWJP conducted a series of interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence affected by firearms to understand their own perceptions…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Tools and Guides ,Considerations When Safety Planning with Criminalized Survivors
(March 2026) Advocates who are working with charged or convicted survivors can provide critical guidance through the safety planning process…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perspectives of Safety and the Risk of Firearms
BWJP conducted a series of interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence affected by firearms to understand their own perceptions…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Tools and Guides ,Understanding Firearms and Intimate Partner Violence Through Rural Law Enforcement Perspectives
Rural communities face unique barriers to addressing the risk of firearms in intimate partner violence. A series of listening sessions…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Tools and Guides ,Domestic Violence Laws in the Early United States: Using the Historical Record in Litigation
Supreme Court precedent calls for us to look at the early United States' historical record to determine whether modern day…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Tools and Guides ,Gender Inequities: The Erasure of Women’s Lives Through the Absence of Data
Comprehensive, timely data is essential for understanding and preventing intimate partner gun deaths, yet significant gaps persist. The CDC’s National…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Tools and Guides ,Working With Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Advocates
by National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women staff (November 2009) Updated July 2025 by Sophie Davis and Cindene…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit
(Fall 2025) This Toolkit provides ideas, strategies, and techniques for addressing the need and challenges related to making survivors charged…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Basic Propositions: Manipulation of the Criminal Legal System as a Tool of Control
A criminal conviction can dramatically shift the power dynamic in an abusive relationship. By saddling a survivor with a criminal…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,What Lawyers Should Know about Battered Woman Syndrome
While courts around the country may not adhere to one static understanding of the use of Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS),…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,TIPSHEET: Working with Survivors on Probation and Parole
Community-based advocates can play a critical role in helping survivors successfully complete supervision, particularly when working in partnership with a…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Reentry Checklist For Advocates Working with Reentering Survivors
Victims of battering face additional layers of complexity including heightened risks from an abusive partner who continues to sabotage their…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Propositions: Coping and Survival Strategies
This memo contains excerpts from social science literature discusses some common ways survivors cope with and implement strategies to mitigate…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Toolkit
This Extreme Risk Protection Order Toolkit is for practitioners who work with survivors in civil protection order systems. The toolkit…
TAGS: #Laws and Regulations , #Policy Analysis , #Promising Practices , #Research and Statistics , #Statute Guides and Matrices , #survivors , #Tools and Guides ,The Results of a 10-Year Study of the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence Primary Aggressor Laws on Single and Dual Arrest
Published by: David Hirschel, PhD and Philip D. McCormack, PhD Arrest as a preferred response to incidents of intimate partner…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Webinar ,Research Paper: Are Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Tools Racially Biased?
Published by: Kathleen J. Ferraro, PhD and Neil S. Websdale, PhD This paper considers the question of whether Intimate Partner Violence…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics ,Current Research on Batterer Intervention Programs and Implications for Policy
Published by: Kathleen J. Ferraro, PhD Batterer intervention programs (BIPs) emerged in the United States in the late 1970s as…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics , #Webinar ,Custody Evaluator’s Beliefs About Domestic Violence
Published by: Gabrielle Davis Three important new studies explore the relationship between custody evaluators' beliefs about domestic abuse and the…
TAGS: #Research and Statistics ,Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
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