Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Claire Renzetti (editor); Diane Follingstad (editor); Ann Coker (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can we prevent intimate partner violence (IPV)? And how do we define and measure “success” in preventing it? This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields to examine innovative strategies and programs for preventing IPV. The authors discuss evaluations of current prevention efforts, paying particular attention to underserved groups, including racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees. Among the issues addressed are primary prevention programs that target adolescents and young adults, strategies designed to engage men and boys, IPV screening in different settings, the impact of the criminalization of IPV on minority populations, restorative justice programs, interventions for women who use violence, and innovative shelter programming to prevent re-victimization. The volume concludes by identifying the gaps in knowledge about effective prevention and highlighting the most promising future directions for prevention research and strategies.

✦ Table of Contents

PREVENTING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
1. Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: An Introduction
Introduction
Prevention science
Organization of the book
2. Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Among Underserved and Understudied Groups: The Roles of Culture and Context
Introduction
Defining culture and cultural competency
Evaluating and adapting primary prevention efforts
Evaluating and adapting secondary/tertiary prevention efforts
Prevention research
Implications for international settings
Conclusion
3. Primary Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programs for Adolescents and Young Adults
Introduction
Creating connections in schools: Overview o fprograms with demonstrated efficacy to reduce IPV in adolescents
Summary of secondary school sexual or partner violence prevention programing
Bystander interventions as a point of connection for prevention programming
A case study of implementing and evaluating a statewide bystander program intervention
Next steps for researchers and prevention practitioners
Conclusion
4. Engaging Men and Boys in Preventing Gender-based Violence
Introduction
Prevention strategies
Global efforts to engage men and boys in preventing GBV
Future directions for research
Conclusion
5. Gender-based Violence Assessment in the Health Sector and Beyond
Introduction
Why screen for IPV and other forms of GBV?
IPV/GBV screening and response in health settings: The evidence base
IPV/GBV screening: Policy context
Gaps in knowledge and recommendations
Recent innovation
Conclusion
6. Emergent Research and Practice Trends in Contextually Addressing the Complexity of Women’s Use of Force
Introduction
Emerging trends in research
Women who have used force: Emerging issues from arrest to intervention
Toward tailored intervention
Recommendations for work with women who have used force
Upcoming challenges
Conclusion
7. Research on Restorative Justice in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
Introduction
Common forms of RJ
Evaluation of RJ programs
Feminist perspectives on RJ in cases of IPV
Evaluations of RJ in cases of IPV
Promising recent developments
Conclusion
8. Justice as a Tertiary Prevention Strategy
Introduction
What is justice?
Procedural v. substantive justice
Retributive justice
Restorative justice
Transformative justice
Justice as recognition
Parallel justice
Defining justice in the context of IPV
Economic justice
Conclusion
9. Innovative Programs to Economically Empower Women and Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Revictimization
Introduction
Financial literacy programs
GreenHouse17: Therapeutic horticulture and economic empowerment
The importance of cultural competence: Pigs for Peace (PFP)
Conclusion
10. Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: Thinking Forward
Introduction
Larger social modification
Limited and tangible social change
Future research and conclusion
Index