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6 The Future of Research on Violence Against Women: Final Thoughts
Pages 96-100

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From page 96...
... However, because of the comparatively low level of funding that has been available for rigorous studies on violence against women (compared, for example, with drug abuse and other health or behavioral areas) , federal research agencies have tended to fund important but less expensive studies instead of developing the research infrastructure required to support studies on causes of violence against women and the impact of interventions.
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From page 97...
... The steering committee believes that the federal research agencies responsible for developing research and statistics in this area are best positioned to develop a process for designing this framework. For example, the Bureau of Justice Statistics had relatively recent experience salient to such an effort in the research process that informed the redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey.
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From page 98...
... CONDUCTING LONGITUDINAL STUDIES The committee found credible evidence from an existing New Zealand longitudinal study (Moffitt et al., 2001) that perpetrators of violence against women commonly have histories of violence and conduct problems outside of intimate relationships, and that the same is true for women who commit violent acts.
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From page 99...
... If we are to be able to determine whether programs are working, having no effect, or doing harm, more rigorous evaluation studies and the funding and infrastructure required to support them should be a priority of federal research agencies conducting studies on violence against women. OTHER EMERGING RESEARCH PRIORITIES Understanding Violence Against Women recommends that all research on violence against women take into account the context within which women live their lives and in which the violence occurs and that this context include social, cultural, and individual factors.
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From page 100...
... Research is needed on the long-term effects of sanctioning policy, on how offenders form perceptions of the risk of punishment, on the extent to which levels of violence against women respond to policy in specific locations, and on the links between intended policy and the policy that is actually implemented and its effect on levels of violence. Finally, there is emerging and credible evidence that the general origins and behavioral patterns of various forms of violence, such as male violence against women and men and female violence against men and women, may be similar.
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  • longitudinal study
  • evaluation studies

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  • individual factors
  • legal reforms
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  • accurate prevalence
  • recent experience
  • improve definitions
  • program evaluation
  • priorities understanding

  • studies currently
  • spatial concentration
  • recommended effort
  • existing longitudinal
  • gang crime

  • social ecology
  • demographic changes
  • conditions interact
  • measurement tools
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  • worth exploring
  • actually implemented
  • violence rates
  • including gun
  • women recommends


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