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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Evaluation Violence Against Women
The nia project: Children and Young People’s Service Evaluation
CWASU is undertaking an evaluation of four of the nia project’s services; the Parenting programme, Young People and Sexual Exploitation, Young People and Sexual Violence and Family Learning programmes. This evaluation focuses on how well the project aims have been met as well as reflecting on project methodology. The overall
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Policy Violence Against Women
Risking Our Lives: Intimate Partner Homicide in Ireland
Intimate partner homicide (IPH), the murder of a person by their (ex) partner, is an under-explored issue. Globally, the majority of victims of IPH are women, and perpetrators men; with IPH the leading cause of violent death for women (UN, 2006). New approaches to addressing IPH in the US and
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Moving On Up: How women and children rebuild their lives after domestic violence
This project was aimed to improve the quality of life for women and child survivors of domestic violence by identifying the factors that support long-term re-settlement and lead to independence. While crisis interventions are well developed and the criminal justice response has improved greatly, little is known about the broader,
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Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Policy Rape Research Support Projects Violence Against Women
Map of Gaps: The Postcode Lottery of Violence Against Women Support Services
Map of Gaps shows graphically for the first time the real postcode lottery in violence against women support services such as Rape Crisis Centres and domestic violence refuges. A third of local authorities across the UK do not have specialised services, leaving many women without the support they deserve. Completed
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Moving On Up: How women and children rebuild their lives after domestic violence
This project was aimed to improve the quality of life for women and child survivors of domestic violence by identifying the factors that support long-term re-settlement and lead to independence.
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Connections and disconnections: Assessing evidence, knowledge and practice in responses to rape
This research review was commissioned as part of the Stern Review of responses by public bodies to rape. The Stern Review was announced by the Government Equalities Office on 22nd September 2009, in part as a response to concerns raised by the Reid and Worboys cases. In these cases, the
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Policy Prostitution Research
Shifting Sands: A Comparison of Prostitution Regimes across Nine Countries
This study was commissioned by the Home Office as part of the Tackling Demand for Prostitution Review, to update a report undertaken in 2003 for Glasgow City Council (Bindel and Kelly, 2004). The original project examined legal and policy responses to prostitution in four countries. Here that is extended to
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Project Mirabal
Project Mirabal – Domestic Violence Perpetrators – Changing the Story Project Mirabal is supported by grants from the ESRC, Northern Rock Foundation and LankellyChase Foundation. The research started started in 2009 with a formal research launch in January 2015. Professors Liz Kelly (London Metropolitan University), Nicole Westmarland (Durham University),
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Project Mirabal
What do perpetrator programmes add to co-ordinated community responses to domestic violence? This research project started in 2009 and concluded in 2014. The formal launch of the research is planned for January 2015. Professors Liz Kelly (London Metropolitan University), Nicole Westmarland (Durham University), and Charlotte Watts (London School of Hygiene
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A Missing Link?:An exploratory study of the connections between non-consensual sex and teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy has been a policy priority traversing health, education and crime agendas at national and local levels for a decade. In 1999 a twin track strategy for England and Wales was introduced that aimed to halve teenage conception rates among under 18s by 2010, whilst simultaneously reducing social exclusion