Domestic violence and substance use: overlapping issues in separate services?

 

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Linda Regan, Ravi K. Thiara

Prevention not Prediction? A preliminary evaluation of the Metropolitan Police Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Model (SPECSS)

This is the final report that explores the findings from an evaluation of the domestic violence risk assessment process piloted by the police in London and West Yorkshire.

The project evaluated the effect of the ACPO risk assessment model by assessing whether it;

• Complies with the ACPO guidelines;
• Addresses victims needs in terms of risk;
• Compliments safety planning;
• Can be managed with police force limitations;
• Can be applied irrespective of geography, community or policing variables.

See Project: ACPO Risk Assessment Evaluation

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Ravi K. Thiara, Linda Regan, Jo Lovett, Lorna M Dubois, Andy Gibson

Domestic Violence and Substance Use: Tackling Complexity

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Linda Regan, Dawn River, Ravi K. Thiara

Domestic violence and substance use: overlapping issues in separate services?

This briefing summarieses findings from a one-year research porject, jointly funded by the Home Office and the Greater London Authority (GLA), which explored the overlap between domestic violence and substance use by men and women who are accessing services in these sectors.

See Project: The Links Between Domestic Violence and Substance Misuse

Both the Briefing Report and the Full Report are available to view below.

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Ravi K. Thiara, Linda Regan

CEDAW Thematic Shadow Report: Violence Against Women in the UK

The Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a United Nations Treaty Body, whose task is to oversea the implementation of the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This Committee considers reports made by governments, and when these are submitted NGOs are entitled to submit their own 'shadow' reports.

This report focuses on violence against women only, and was submitted in 2004 alongside the shadow report of the Women's National Commission, which addressed the full range of CEDAW text. As various UN documents and policies have made clear, violence against wome is an issue of gender discrimination, representing a barrier to the achievement of gender equality.

Overrall, while the authors of the report welcomed the increased government attention to the issue of violence against women, they argue that limited financial investment and lack of strategic infrastructure and oversight means the UK is still not in compliance with the responsibilities of States, outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action.

Available to view at the Womankind Worldwide website.

Authors: P Sen, Catherine Humphreys, Liz Kelly

What Works in Reducing Domestic Violence? A Comprehensive Guide for Professionals

Julie Taylor-Brown (ed.), 2001, Whiting and Birch Ltd.

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Liz Kelly

From Good Intentions to Good Practice: Mapping Services Working With Families Where There is Domestic Violence

This report identifies and maps family support work with women, children and men within both the statutory and voluntary sectors throughout the UK; identifies innovative work throughout the country in relation to domestic violence and family support; explores specific cases of good practice in relation to work with women, children and men in both the voluntary and statutory sectors, and develops a framework through which examples of good practice can be identified.

Written in association with in association with Barnardo's, The Children's Society, NCH Action for Children, NSPCC, WAFE and CWASU.

Available to view at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.

See: Findings

See Project:Mapping Services Working With Families Where There is Domestic Violence

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Marianne Hester, Gill Hague, Audrey Mullender, Hilary Abrahams, Pam Lowe

Women, Violence and Strategies for Action: Feminist Research, Policy and Practice

Jill Radford, Melissa Friedberg and Lynne Harne (eds.), Open University Press

Authors: Catherine Humphreys, Liz Kelly

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