Coordinated community response components for victims of intimate partner violence: A review of the literature

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a serious problem throughout the world. Each year a substantial number of women experience psychological, physical, and sexual aggression from an intimate partner, with many women experiencing serious mental and physical health outcomes as a result of their victimization. A number of services are available to women who sustain IPV (e.g., shelters, advocacy, legal protection), and the combination of these services has been termed a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to IPV. The purpose of the present manuscript is to review the individual components of CCRs for IPV victims, examine the extant literature on a number of the individual CCR components, and suggest directions for future research on CCRs for IPV victims. Our review demonstrates that there is a significant lack of research on various CCR components, that research on the integration of CCR services is limited, and that theoretical guidance for CCR programs is almost non-existent. Directions for improving research on CCR components are suggested.

Health Care Providers’ Experience with a Protocol for the Identification, Treatment, and Referral of Human-Trafficking Victims

“…A lack of local services, or a lack of trauma-informed and prepared local providers, can pose an ethical quandry for healthcare professionals because it could endanger or harm a victim to be identified but then receive inadequate follow-up help. One possibility is that providers adapt the "coordinated community response" model that domestic violence providers have used throughout the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 U.S. (Shepard, Falk, & Elliott, 2002;Shorey, Tirone, & Stuart, 2014). More information about the coordinated community response can be found here:…”

Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

“…Studies have suggested that intimate partner violence is positively associated with factors such as age (Millett, Seay, & Kohl, 2015;Walker, Bowen, & Brown, 2013), residency (Tang & Lai, 2008), marital duration (Babu & Kar, 2010), education (Shorey, Tirone, & Stuart, 2014;VanderEnde, Yount, Dynes, & Sibley, 2012), occupation (Heath, 2012;Krishnan et al, 2010), economic status (Hines, 2007;Koenig, Stephenson, Ahmed, Jejeebhoy, & Campbell, 2006), problem alcohol use (Chang, Shen, & Takeuchi, 2009;Jewkes, Levin, & Penn-Kekana, 2002), traditional ideas (Lichter & McCloskey, 2004;Taylor, Nair, & Braham, 2013), gender inequity (Gomez, Speizer, & Moracco, 2011), liberal ideas on woman's role (Jewkes et al, 2002), culture (Wendt, 2009), witnessing parental violence in childhood (Abrahams, Jewkes, Laubsher, & Hoffman, 2006;Speizer, 2010) and attitude toward IPV (Fincham, Cui, Braithwaite, & Pasley, 2008;Stith, Smith, Penn, Ward, & Tritt, 2004).…”

Fifty Years After the 1967 Crime Commission Report

“…Researchers’ and practitioners’ “growing awareness” of the complexity of DV has evolved into the understanding that “keeping women safe requires the coordinated effort of multiple systems” (Cattaneo and Goodman, : 156). Innovative responses to addressing DV have increasingly relied on what are known as community‐coordinated responses (CCRs), which attempt to empower the victim by coordinating multiple responses for their cases, with the ultimate goals of providing better case outcomes, victim participation, and victim safety (Cattaneo et al., : 1244; see also, Shorey, Tirone, and Stuart, ; Sullivan, ). This approach assumes that CCRs cannot be as effective if they are restricted to criminal legal system responses and do not “include a more victim‐informed mission that engages social justice agencies, clinics, housing and other organizations to meet victims’ needs” (Koss et al., : 1026; see also Cerulli et al., ; Shorey et al., ).…”