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Domestic Violence
Women's Aid charity.
Selection of resources.
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Selection of reports and articles from this charity
Library Collection: Domestic Homicide Reviews
eResource - Collection of reports from across England and Wales.
Policing domestic abuse: risk, policy, practice.
eBook - Barrow-Grint, K et al.
2023, Abingdon: Routledge
Domestic violence against men and boys: experiences of male victims of intimate partner violence.
eBook - Bates, E. and Taylor, J.
2022, Abingdon, Routledge.
'A patchwork of provision': how to meet the needs of victims and survivors across England and Wales.
eResource - Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
2023, London: Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales.
Domestic abuse disclosure schemes: problems with policy, regulation and legality.
eBook - Grace, J.
2022, Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.
Rapid video responses (RVR) vs. face-to-face responses by police officers to domestic abuse victims: a randomised controlled trial.
Article - Rothwell, S. et al. 2022. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing.
Domestic abuse: an examination of investigation processes in Durham Constabulary and their influence on crime outcomes.
Thesis - Booth, R.
2023, Sunderland: University of Sunderland.
A safe time and a safe place: providing effective advocacy to black and minoritised victim survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices in contact with the criminal justice system.
eResource - Jeffrey, H.
2023, London: Centre for Justice Innovation.
Improving police risk assessment of domestic violence: A follow-up validation study.
Article - Dowling, C. et al.
2023, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 674, pp. 1-18
Exploring officer-influence on disengagement among domestic abuse victims in Lincolnshire. A mixed methods study.
Thesis - Brewster, N.
2023, Sunderland: University of Sunderland.
Police Officers Do Not Need More Training; But Different Training. Policing Domestic Violence and Abuse Involving Children: A Rapid Review
Article - Millar, A. et al.
2022, Journal of Family Violence, 37(7), pp. 1071-1088.
Gender based violence in university communities: policy, prevention and educational initiatives.
Book - Anitha, S. and Lewis, R. 2018. Bristol: Policy Press
Women, rape and justice: unravelling the rape conundrum.
eBook - Jordan, J. 2022. Abingdon: Routledge.
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales.
Article - Myhill, A. et al. 2022. Policing and Society.
In control : dangerous relationships and how they end in murder.
eBook - Monckton-Smith, J. 2021. London: Bloomsbury,
Working with domestic violence and abuse across the lifecourse: understanding good practice.
eBook - Radford, L. and Thiara, R. 2021. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Transgressed: intimate partner violence in transgender lives.
Book - Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L. 2019. New York: New York University Press.
Victim's experiences of the criminal justice response to domestic abuse: beyond glasswalls.
eBook - Forbes, E. 2022. Bingley: Emerald Group.
Child to parent violence and abuse: family interventions with non violent resistance.
eBook - Coogan, D., 2017.
The Routledge international handbook of domestic violence and abuse.
eBook, Devaney, J. et a., Routledge, 2021.
Targeting domestic abuse with police data
eBook - Bland, M.P. and Ariel, B. Cham, Switzerland : Springer. 2020.
Police initial responses to domestic abuse: a systematic review
Report - Vigurs, C. et al. College of Policing, 2016.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Journal - Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Piloting a new approach to domestic abuse frontline risk assessment
Report - Wire, J. and Myhill, A. College of Policing, 2018.
Dashing hopes? the predictive accuracy of domestic abuse risk assessment by police.
Article - Turner, E. British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 59 no. 5, 2019, p.1013-1034.
A critical reflection on the use and effectiveness of DVPNs and DVPOs.
Article - Blackburn, K. Police Practice & Research. Vol. 22 no. 1, 2021, p.23-39.
Policing partner abuse and the new crime of coercive control in the United Kingdom.
Article - Stark, E. Criminal Justice Research Review. Vol. 18 no. 2, 2017, p.49-52.