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 Criminal Protection Orders As A Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence: The Impact Of Orders On Victims' Well-Being, Offenders' Behavior, And Children's Contact With Offending Fathers
Award Information
Awardee
              Yale University
Award #
              2012-IJ-CX-0045
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    New Haven, CT
Congressional District
              3
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $753,081
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Building and Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $753,081)
Criminal protection orders are a critical tool to enhance the safety and protection of victims of domestic violence (DV). They are issued frequently, but, limited research exists to elucidate the process and outcomes of these orders. Only two NIJ studies in the last 15 years focused explicitly on criminal orders. Further, research on civil orders cannot be relied on to inform practice and policy for criminal orders given the vast differences in their processes and implications. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of victims and their children, there is a critical need for research to (a) elucidate the process of criminal orders as a critical strategy to reduce DV, (b) increase knowledge about how criminal orders influence the daily lives of women, are associated with offender behavior, and impact children's contact with offending fathers, and (c) disseminate findings broadly to key audiences. 

This project was developed and will be conducted via strong, existing collaborations between a researcher and two criminal justice system practitioners (separately representing victim and offender services). Goal 1, Victims: To increase knowledge about how criminal orders affect victims' safety and wellbeing. Objectives aim to (a) provide descriptive information about victims wellbeing subsequent to their partners arraignment and (b) compare wellbeing among victims grouped on two dimensions of orders, (1) the extent to which orders are issued at a more restrictive level than requested by victims and (2) the extent to which orders affect daily living, and (c) determine if offender and victim characteristics moderate the differences. Goal 2, Offenders: To increase knowledge about how criminal orders, in combination with offender programming, affect offender behavior.in order to identify level of order and type of programming associated with the lowest rates of revictimization and recidivism, and if offender and victim characteristics moderate the differences. Goal 3, Children: To increase knowledge about how criminal orders affect children's contact in cases where offenders are the fathers of victims' children. Objectives aim to (a) identify the proportion of victims who seek civil orders to protect their children and if differences exist by level of criminal order requested or issued, and (b) for residential stay-away or full no-contact order, to gather information about contact with the offending father.

A mixed-method, design will be used to gather quantitative and qualitative data from 300 women recruited from the state's office of the victim advocate and the community. Straified random sampling procedures will be used to secure a diverse sample from the office of the victim advocate files. Participants will be victims in a DV case with a male partner arraigned months prior to study entry. The sample is expected to be 47% white, 37% African American, 14% Latino, and 2% from other or unknown racial/ethnic groups. Victims will self-report all data via interview. The state criminal justice system will provide additional quantitative data. Data collection is expected to take 27 months.

Descriptive statistics will be used to elucidate the phenomenon of criminal orders and inferential statistics (e.g., linear and non-linear regression) will examine study objectives. Qualitative data will be transcribed, coded, analyzed, and interpreted using NVivo 9 software. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Criminal Orders of Protection for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Future System Engagement, and Well-Being: Understanding the Importance of Prior Abusive Relationships
                  Intimate Partner Violence Fear-11 Scale: An Item Response Analysis
                  Criminal Protection Orders Among Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Women's Experiences of Court Decisions, Processes, and Their Willingness to Engage With the System in the Future
                  Criminal Protection Orders for Women Victims of Domestic Violence: Explicating Predictors of Level of Restrictions Among Orders Issued
                  Racial/Ethnic Differences in Alcohol and Drug Misuse Among IPV-Victimized Women: Exploring the Role of Difficulties Regulating Positive Emotions
                  Emotion Dysregulation and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: a Test of the Incremental Role of Difficulties Regulating Positive Emotions
                  An Examination of the Role of Difficulties Regulating Positive Emotions in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
                  Heterogeneity in Emotion Regulation Difficulties Among Women Victims of Domestic Violence: A Latent Profile Analysis
                  Is Firearm Threat in Intimate Relationships Associated With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Women?
                  Criminal Protective Orders as a Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence, Final Summary Overview
                  Criminal Protective Orders as a Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence, Researcher-Practitioner Partnership Summary

  
Date Created: September 12, 2012
    
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