Community Responses to Domestic Violence

Alissa Pollitz Worden

Project Director

Several research projects have been completed and several are currently being conducted that relate to the area of community responses to domestic/partner violence.  Please reference the list below for descriptions.

Projects and sponsoring agencies

Violence Against Women: Syntheses for Practitioners

Alissa Pollitz Worden & Bonnie E. Carlson, Project Co-Directors

This project deals with organizing relevant research findings on the topic of violence against women in ways that will help practitioners in the field. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, it resulted in thirteen policy papers, available on the NCJRS website, that addressed the practice and program needs of professionals in criminal justice, social services, and health fields.

Evaluation of the NYS Mandatory Arrest Provision of the Family Protection and Domestic Violence Intervention Act of 1994

Alissa Pollitz Worden, Project Director

This project evaluated the impacts of the 1994 Family Protection and Domestic Violence Intervention Act. The University was partnered with the Division of Criminal Justice Services and the NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence on this five-year evaluation project.

Beliefs and Perceptions About Domestic Violence: The Effects of Individual, Contextual, and Community Factors

Alissa Pollitz Worden & Bonnie E. Carlson, Project Co-Director

Funded by the National Institute of Justice, this research examines the relationships between individual attitudes toward acceptability of partner violence and perceptions about interventions and sanctions, with a particular focus on the similarities and differences among people's attitudes across different types of communities, and across communities with different strategic approaches to domestic violence intervention.

Models of Community Coordination on Domestic Violence Interventions

Alissa Pollitz Worden, Project Director

Funded by the National Institute of Justice and conducted at a time of rapid legal change in New York, this project developed a typology of community coordination models for domestic violence interventions, and assessed the role of leadership, conflict, and resources in the growth of different types of coordination models.

Criminal Justice Coordination in Rural Jurisdictions

Alissa Pollitz Worden, Project Director

This project, contracted with the New York State Police, is an evaluation of the effectiveness of police-prosecutor strategies undertaken under the auspices of a COPS grant; the objective of these strategies is improvement of police responses, and particularly evidence collection, in domestic violence incidents in three rural counties.

Rensselaer County Domestic Violence Interventions

Alissa Pollitz Worden, Project Director

Rensselaer County's District Attorney is overseeing a $1,000,000 Department of Justice grant targeted at improving victim safety in domestic violence incidents. The university researcher is the formal evaluator for this project.

Rensselaer County START Child Advocacy Center Evaluation

Bonnie E.Carlson & Alissa Pollitz Worden, Project Co-Directors

The Rennselaer County Child Advocacy Center has received funding from the NYS OCFS to improve practitioners' capacity to work with child abuse victims, particularly those in households characterized by adult partner violence. This project calls for collaboration among a wide set of actors, including Child Protective Services, law enforcement, the District Attorney, law guardians, and victim services. The university researchers are assisting in the planning and evaluation of this project.

Violence Against Women: Syntheses for Practitioners

Alissa Pollitz Worden & Bonnie E. Carlson, Project Co-Directors

This project deals with organizing relevant research findings on the topic of violence against women in ways that will help practitioners in the field. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, it resulted in thirteen policy papers, available on the NCJRS website, that addressed the practice and program needs of professionals in criminal justice, social services, and health fields.

Staff
Gabriela Vega
Creaig Dunton

Contact information
Telephone: (518) 442-5213

E-mail: aworden@albany.edu

FAX: (518) 442-5603

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Community Responses to Domestic Violence

Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center

University at Albany, SUNY

135 Western Avenue, DR-241

Albany, NY 12222