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Tackling domestic violence: effective interventions and approaches

Introduction

An evaluation of 27 domestic violence projects looking at their effectiveness in supporting victims and tackling the problem.

Problem

Addresses the need to reduce domestic violence, rape and assault against women, identifying what works in reducing domestic violence and in supporting victims of such violence by examining project design, implementation, delivery, outputs, impact and cost.

Description

This report presents an evaluation of 27 domestic violence projects examining their effectiveness in supporting victims and tackling the problem. It also explains the background to the Crime Reduction Programme Violence Against Women Initiative. The report outlines a variety of approaches and discusses the findings on each:

primary prevention among young people;
supporting women by enabling disclosure;
supporting women to report to the police;
supporting women through the courts;
reducing repeat victimisation; and
supporting women through individual work and groupwork.

Approach

The pilot projects used a variety of approaches to reduce instances of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault including:

raising awareness and challenging attitudes among young people;
supporting women by enabling disclosure of domestic violence;
supporting women to report to the police;
supporting women through the courts;
reducing repeat victimisation through target hardening and a variety of advocacy approaches; and
supporting women through individual work and group work.

Results

The evaluation found that the following interventions and approaches were successful in developing prevention, reducing domestic violence and dealing with impacts:

primary prevention;
supporting women by enabling disclosure;
supporting women to report to the police;
supporting women through the courts;
reducing repeat victimisation; and
supporting women through individual work and groupwork.

Beneficiaries

Women subjected to domestic violence, rape or sexual assault.

Financing

VAWI received £6.3 million from the Home Office to fund 34 pilot projects.

Contact info

Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
Phone: + 44 870 000 1585
public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Project start date

01/07/2000

Planned end date

01/03/2003

Links

Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate Home Office

Tackling domestic violence: effective interventions and approaches (PDF, Eng, 576KB)

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Security & crime prevention > Anti-crime policy

Keywords

Gender & domestic violence