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Criminal Justice System Europe Rape Support Projects
Rape: The Forgotten Issue? A European Research and Networking Project
The original idea for this project emerged from an international workshop on rape and was developed by three UK groups (CWASU, South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre and Campaign to End Rape), supported by partners from Ireland (The Network of Rape Crisis Centres, Ireland) and Finland (Rape Crisis Centre,
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Evaluation Policy Rape Support Projects
Evaluation of the Crime Reduction Programme Violence Against Women Rape Projects, and a Linked National Evaluation of Sexual Assault Referral Centres
Three Linked Components: Evaluation of STAR (Surviving Trauma After Rape) Youth Service Intervention; Evaluation of REACH (Rape, Examination, Advice, Counselling and Help) Website Intervention; National Evaluation of Sexual Assault Referral Centres/Services (SARCs) including St Mary’s, REACH and STAR. Component 1 – The STAR Youth Service Intervention: This evaluation is focused
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Criminal Justice System Training Violence Against Women
Manual for European police forces on policing violence against women
The Council of Europe commissioned the work for The VIP Guide: Vision, Innovation and Professionalism in Policing Violence Against Women and Children. The title of this document refers to three aspects of police work that can transform responses to violence against women: Vision, Innovation and Professionalism. The
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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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Domestic Violence Europe Perpetrators Support Projects Training
Best practice Training and Materials for Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Their (ex) Partners
Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) In January 2000 DVIP and its European partners received Daphne funding for a project which aims to promote best practice with regard to domestic violence intervention both within the UK and across other European countries. The first stage of the project involved DVIP producing a
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Evaluation Policy Prostitution Support Projects
Evaluation of The Maze Marigold Project
This report presents the findings of an evaluation of The Maze Marigold Project, which works with girls and young women involved in prostitution in Spitalfields. The evaluation, which was undertaken as a co-operative venture between The Maze and CWASU, assesses the progress and performance of the Project against its stated
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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 Domestic Violence Rape Violence Against Women Young People
Young Women’s Vulnerabilities and Needs- An Internal Briefing Document
This review of what is known about violence against young women was prepared by way of online UK and international data searches, and the collation and secondary analysis of an array of research data held by CWASU. Findings and commentary on this analysis are presented in relation to specific forms
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Domestic Violence Europe Support Projects
Project Documentation 1998-1999 (Transnational Network of Experts from NGO Women Projects in Great Britain and Germany for Optimising the Action Against Domestic Violence)
The aim of this transnational project is to promote an exchange of preventative work and training concepts in responding to domestic violence by establishing a bi-national network of workers in Britain and Germany. The project promotes quality assurance in NGO women’s projects in the areas of service provision, preventative work
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Domestic Violence Policy Support Projects
Mapping Services Working With Families Where There is Domestic Violence
This project was conducted in association with Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, NCH Action for Children, NSPCC, WAFE and CWASU, and set out to: identify and map family support work with women, children and men within both the statutory and voluntary sectors throughout the UK; identify innovative work throughout the country