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6 results found.
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Domestic Violence Policy Statistics Violence Against Women
Service Mapping Project
The project funded by the Roddick Foundation involves mapping the provision of VAW services across the nations and regions of the UK. We are using GIS systems to locate services geographically, producing maps which can go down to local authority boundaries, as well as provide an overall picture. Intended as
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Criminal Justice System Legislation Policy Statistics Violence Against Women
Updating the British Council Briefing Document on Violence against Women
This project involves updating the Briefing Document on violence against women, originally written by Liz Kelly and published in 1999. This involved taking into account new developments, international and national policy and legislation, and changes in practice. See Resources: Violence against Women: A briefing document on international
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Criminal Justice System Policy Rape Research Statistics
Understanding of Attrition, Decreasing Early Withdrawals and Developing Best Practice for Reporting Rape
This project, undertaken in conjunction with St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre, combines new crime analysis and an evaluation of the implementation of two linked interventions. The crime analysis of St Mary’s database involves identifying patterns with respect to the profile of and relationship (if any) between victims and perpetrators;
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Legislation Policy Statistics Trafficking
Trafficking in Women – the UK context
This report presents the findings of research carried out to assess the nature and extent of trafficking in women for the purposes of sexual exploitation and the law enforcement responses in the UK. This study is primarily based on a survey of police forces, placing this within the wider context
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Effects of/surviving violence Research Statistics
A Qualitative Study of the Meaning and Impacts of Sexual Abuse in Childhood
The primary themes in this study were to explore the ways in which the gender and age of victim and abuser affected the meanings and impacts of sexual abuse in childhood in a non-clinical sample of women and men. Methods used in the project included: literature review of previous studies;
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Definitions Research Statistics
Exploratory Study of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse
Research on the frequency of sexual abuse takes one of two forms: 1. Incidence studies which count the number of new cases within any one year. The Department of Health began collecting and collating figures from all social service departments in 1989. The figures for 1989 are 23,000 additional children