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Resources for Victim Service Providers - Evidence Based Practice

  • Police Departments' Use of the Lethality Assessment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation

    This quasi-experimental evaluation examined the effectiveness of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), a collaboration between police and social service providers that aimed to decrease rates of repeat, severe, lethal and near-lethal domestic violence while increasing rates of emergency safety planning and help-seeking.

  • Research Designs in the Real World: Testing the Effectiveness of an IPV Intervention

    Many factors can influence study design, particularly when evaluating an intervention in the field. Although randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard of evaluations, there are practical and ethical considerations that may exclude their use. This case study looks at those factors and their impact on an evaluation of an intimate partner violence intervention.