Impact Evaluation of "Stop Violence Against Women" Grants in...Wisconsin..New Hampshire...Missouri...Ohio, 1996-2000 / Brenda K. Uekert, Neal Miller, Cheron Dupree.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Uekert, Brenda K.

Miller, Neal.

DuPree, Cheron, 1968-

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3252.

ICPSR ; 3252

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

In 1996 the Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ) began an evaluation of the law enforcement and prosecution components of the "STOP Violence Against Women" grant program authorized by the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. This data collection constitutes one component of the evaluation. The researchers chose to evaluate two specialized units and two multi-agency team projects in order to study the local impact of STOP on victim safety and offender accountability. The two specialized units reflected typical STOP funding, with money being used for the addition of one or two dedicated professionals in each community. The Dane County, Wisconsin, Sheriff's Office used STOP funds to support the salaries of two domestic violence detectives. This project was evaluated through surveys of domestic violence victims served by the Dane County Sheriff's Office (Part 1). In Stark County, Ohio, the Office of the Prosecutor used STOP funds to support the salary of a designated felony domestic violence prosecutor. The Stark County project was evaluated by tracking domestic violence cases filed with the prosecutor's office. The case tracking system included only cases involving intimate partner violence, with a male offender and female victim. All domestic violence felons from 1996 were tracked from arrest to disposition and sentence (Part 2). This pre-grant group of felons was compared with a sample of cases from 1999 (Part 3). In Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, a comprehensive evaluation strategy was used to assess the impact of the use of STOP funds on domestic violence cases. First, a sample of 1996 pre-grant and 1999 post-grant domestic violence cases was tracked from arrest to disposition for both regular domestic violence cases (Part 4) and also for dual arrest cases (Part 5). Second, a content analysis of police incident reports from pre- and post-grant periods was carried... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03252

Contents:

Part 1: Dane County Victim Survey Data; Part 2: 1996 Stark County Case Tracking Data; Part 3: 1999 Stark County Case Tracking Data; Part 4: Hillsborough County Regular Case Tracking Data; Part 5: Hillsborough County Dual Arrest Case Tracking Data; Part 6: Hillsborough County Police Report Data; Part 7: Hillsborough County Victim Interview Data; Part 8: Jackson County Case Tracking Data; Part 9: Jackson County Victim Interview Data

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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61153838

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