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To address this mandate, the National Academies appointed a steering committee of four distinguished scholars to develop a workshop that would review research on violence against women, focusing particularly, but not exclusively, on studies completed between 1995 and 2000. The workshop deliberations and the conclusions and recommendations subsequently developed by the steering committee are detailed in this final report.
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Moreover, we believe that the government's research agenda should encompass forms of violent victimization of women other than intimate-partner violence. PREVALENCE Although existing national surveys have provided vital information on the nature and scope of the violent victimization of women over the
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The steering committee believes that a program of research to assess what can be learned from extant data sources might provide important information on prevalence and on how best to proceed to develop more accurate datasets especially whether a new and continuous national survey is needed. This assessment might also show whether linking existing data can provide more information on the risks of, responses to, and consequences of violence against women and the impacts of interventions.
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The committee recommends that work be initiated to examine the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of successfully conducting longitudinal studies on violence against and by women. EVENT-BASED STUDIES Recent studies on interpersonal violence among strangers illustrate the confluence of several contextual factors including motivation, perceptions of risk and opportunity, and social control attributes of the setting that shapes the decision to perpetrate a violent event, as well as its outcome.
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Distribution of Services Availability of services has been linked to variation in rates of intimate-partner homicides against women. The committee recommends that research examine whether access to local services can affect localized rates of intimate-partner violence, and consider implications for planning and locating preventive services.
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PREVENTION AND TREATMENT The committee notes that the evaluation literature on the effects of prevention and treatment strategies is particularly weak. As a previous National Research Council committee found, the design of prevention and control strategies programs and services available to victims and offenders that aim to decrease the number of new cases of assault or abusive behavior, reduce the risk of death or disability from violence, and extend life after a violent event frequently is driven by ideology and stakeholder interests rather than by plausible theories and scientific evidence of causes.
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, funds for program evaluation must be independent from the control of program sponsors so that the ability to evaluate interventions will not be constrained by legislative or other requirements placed on programs or by political considerations. The steering committee recommends that, because of their individual histories in conducting research and demonstration work on these issues, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Justice collaborate to develop an integrated program of rigorous evaluations of prevention, intervention, treatment, and control strategies.
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The committee recommends that future research examine how social stigma for acts of violence against women is generated and either sustained or eroded; such research would inform the development of more effective policies and programs. Formation of Perceptions of the Risk of Sanctions.
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