Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: Analysis of Data from Three Field Experiments
dc.contributor.author | Maxwell, Christopher | |
dc.contributor.author | Davis, Robert C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Bruce | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-13T16:11:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-11-13T16:11:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol.2, 2006, pp.183-210 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61281> | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61281 | |
dc.description.abstract | Preventing repeat victimization is an area of criminology that has shown particular promise in recent years. Based on the premise that persons once victimized are at higher risk than others for future victimization, British officials developed successful programs that focus crime prevention efforts on victims. Of all crimes, family violence may have the highest repeat rate, especially in the first weeks after an incident is reported to the police. Accordingly, New York City officials developed an intervention program to reduce repeat incidents of family abuse. Three field experiments conducted during the 1990s evaluated whether or not this program, targeted at public housing residents who reported family violence to the police, reduced the rate of subsequent victimization. The findings produced within each study were not consistent across the studies; rather, these three experiments, separately analyzed, produce varying results. Since the composition of the samples varied across studies, however, one possible explanation is that this program has different effects within different populations. This paper reports outcomes from a series of analyses of pooled data from these three studies to address the inconsistencies. The results indicate that the intervention brought about greater reporting of subsequent abuse, both to authorities and to research interviewers. The results are invariant across the three studies, indicating that greater reporting of abuse is not idiosyncratic to one particular population, and are consistent across the nature and source of outcome measures. These findings suggest the need for careful monitoring by the advocates and agencies that operate these types of programs and among those designing and testing future programs. | en |
dc.format.extent | 334679 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Springer | en |
dc.subject | Family Violence | en |
dc.subject | Intimate Partner Violence | en |
dc.subject | Elder Abuse | en |
dc.subject | Victimization | en |
dc.title | Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: Analysis of Data from Three Field Experiments | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Statistics and Numeric Data | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Police Foundation, Washington, DC | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, DC | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61281/1/Maxwell_Preventing_repeat_incidents_of_family_violence_pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
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