Reducing victimisation and repeat victimisation in relation to domestic abuse

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Violent crime is a major public concern and tackling it is our top priority. This includes terrorism, knife and gun crime, sexual offending, domestic abuse and safeguarding vulnerable people from predatory behaviour.

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Related UKRI funded projects

  • Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse

    The ISEDA project (Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse) aims to combat and eliminate DVA by employing an enriched European approach, utilizing modern technological tools and practices and improved multi-sect...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the issue of domestic abuse and provides innovative solutions to reduce victimisation and repeat victimisation, meeting all the criteria.

  • Domestic Abuse: Responding to the Shadow Pandemic

    The eradication of violence against women is a global aim (UN SDG 16). Globally, pandemics notwithstanding, domestic abuse costs around$4.4 trillion a year or just over 5% of the annual global GDP (Hoeffler and Fearon 20...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the issue of reducing victimisation and repeat victimisation in relation to domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Is the rate of domestic violence decreasing or increasing? A re-analysis of the British Crime Survey

    Is the rate of domestic violence going up or down? After over a decade of decline (1995-2009) the rate of domestic violence as reported by the British Crime Survey appears to have stabilised or started to increase. The B...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Lancaster University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates changes in the rate of domestic violence and explores the implications for policy and practice, which is relevant to the question of reducing victimisation and repeat victimisation in relation to domestic abuse.

  • Understanding and improving risk assessment on domestic abuse cases

    Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of crime coming to the attention of the police. It can have severe and long-standing consequences. Yet our understanding of how to respond to domestic violence, despite v...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Manchester

  • Violence, Abuse and Mental Health: Opportunities for Change

    Violence and abuse are endemic globally. In the most recent Crime Survey in England and Wales, 2% reported past-year community violence (where most victims were men). Domestic violence or abuse (physical, sexual, psychol...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

  • Domestic Abuse: Harnessing Learning Internationally under Covid-19

    There is considerable evidence that, both in the UK and globally, the risks of living with domestic violence and abuse (DVA) have increased consequent to Covid-19 restrictions. A range of responses at policy and practice...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Central Lancashire

  • Domestic violence perpetrator programmes: How do they respond to neurodiversity?

    The violence against women sector looks set to achieve a widely called for Perpetrator Strategy within the imminent Domestic Abuse Act in the UK. This will make it a statutory duty to fund perpetrator programmes to tackl...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Durham University

  • Step Up - Building the Evidence Base for Early Intervention Responses for Children Living With Domestic Abuse

    This project aims to improve child protection responses for children and young people living with domestic violence by providing effective early help. It is based on a partnership between researchers at the University of...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Central Lancashire

  • Violence, Health and Society: VISION

    Violence causes harms to health. The harms to mental health can be more long-lasting than the immediate harms to physical health and have consequences that reverberate through a person's life impacting on their functioni...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: City, University of London

  • Violence, Health and Society

    Violence causes harms to health, especially long-lasting harms to mental health. Mental health is significantly impacted by violence. These harms to mental health can be more long-lasting than the immediate harms to phys...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: City, University of London

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