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Analysis of Unexamined Issues in the Intimate Partner Homicide Decline: Race, Quality of Victim Services, Offender Accountability, and System Accountability. From the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Final Report. 2002

The Criminalization of Domestic Violence: Promises and Limits (PDF)
NIJ Research Report. January 1996. 58 pages. By Jeffrey Fagan, Ph.D., visiting professor in the School of Public Health at Columbia University.

The Crime of Stalking: How Big Is the Problem? (PDF)
1997. Summary of a Presentation by Patricia Tjaden, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research

Developmental Antecedents of Violence Against Women: A Longitudinal Perspective (PDF)
2001 study and analysis of victim, perpetrator and environmental factors.

Developmental Theory and Battering Incidents: Examining the Relationship between Discrete Offender Groups and Intimate Partner Violence (PDF)
June 2002 study for NIJ by Paul Mazerolle (Univ. of Queensland) and Jeffray Maahs (Univ. of Minnesota at Duluth). 92 pages.

Domestic and Sexual Violence Data Collection: A Report to Congress Under the Violence Against Women Act (PDF)
1996 report on the findings of the Project to Assess State and Federal Data on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, which were twofold: to identify ways that States could centralize the collection of information on the incidence of domestic and sexual violence offenses and to examine the problems of statistical recordkeeping at the Federal level for domestic violence-related criminal complaints. To meet the first objective—State data collection—the researchers focused on the current status of reporting in the States, which could serve as a starting point for future data collection improvement efforts. The project concentrated primarily on law enforcement-based indicators of domestic and sexual violence offenses. Information on Federal statistical recordkeeping was obtained from a wide range of Federal, State, and local agencies involved in domestic violence.

Domestic Violence Legislation: Exploring Its Impact on Domestic Violence and the Likelihood That Police Are Informed and Arrest, Final Report (PDF)
2002 report by Laura Dugan, Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Economic Distress, Community Context and Intimate Violence: An Application and Extension of Social Disorganization Theory, Final Report (PDF)
2002 study outlining additional factors in domestic violence.

Effects of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence: New Evidence From the Spouse Assault Replication Program (PDF)
2001 research brief from NIJ

An Evaluation of Victim Advocacy Within a Team Approach, Final Report (PDF)
2001 report evaluating services to battered women in Detroit.

Exploration of the Experiences and Needs of Former Intimate Stalking Victims (PDF)
1999 report by Mary Brewster, West Chester University

Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey (PDF)
National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 2000. 55 pages.

Factors Related to Domestic Violence Court Dispositions in a Large Urban Area: The Role of Victim/Witness Reluctance and Other Variables, Final Report (PDF)
Exlores factors that influence court officials' (judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys) decision-making in domestic violence cases.

Female Victims of Violent Crime (PDF)
1996 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics

Findings About Partner Violence From the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (PDF)
1999 study and research brief from the National Institute of Justice

Intimate Partner Violence 1993-2001 (PDF)
February 2003 Crime Data Brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics

Linkage of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse Services (PDF)
2002 Executive Summary of Findings by the Research Triangle Institute and the National Institute of Justice.

Male-Perpetrated Domestic Violence: Testing a Series of Multifactorial Models
Summary of findings. 2000 report examining the importants of trauma exposure, PTSD symptomology and alcohol abuse in accounting for the perpetration of violence against women.