Council-Based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence for Distal Change in the System Response
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Council-Based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence for Distal Change in the System Response Nicole E. Allen • Nathan R. Todd • Carolyn J. Anderson Shara M. Davis • Shabnam Javdani • Vernie Bruehler • Heather Dorsey
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Published online: 14 March 2013 Ó Society for Community Research and Action 2013
Abstract Communities across the United States are collaborating to create a coordinated response to intimate partner violence (IPV); ideally, this involves promoting best practices in the justice and human service systems and engaging a broad array of community sectors (e.g., human service; criminal justice; faith; business; education) to promote victim safety and batterer accountability (Pence, 1999). The current study examined the extent to which Family Violence Coordinating Councils resulted in change in the systems’ response to IPV. Specifically, we examined judicial order of protection data from 1990 to 2005 to establish whether the formation and development of councils across the state of Illinois promoted the issuance of plenary orders of protection following the initial granting of emergency orders of protection. Such a pattern would indicate implementation of a best practice in the system response to IPV. Utilizing a multilevel logistic modeling approach, we found that the introduction and development of councils was indeed related to the accessibility of plenary orders of protection. The specific ways in which councils may have influenced such an outcome and the implications of this approach for research on council effectiveness are discussed. N. E. Allen (&) C. J. Anderson S. M. Davis University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA e-mail: [email protected] N. R. Todd DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA S. Javdani New York University, New York, NY, USA V. Bruehler H. Dorsey Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council, Springfield, IL, USA
Keywords Intimate partner violence Family violence Domestic violence Collaboration effectiveness Coordinated community response Interagency coordination Orders of protection
Introduction Communities across the United States are collaborating to create a coordinated response to intimate partner violence (IPV); ideally, this involves promoting best practices in the justice and human service systems and engaging a broad array of community sectors (e.g., human service; criminal justice; faith; business; education) to promote victim safety and batterer accountability (Pence 1999). To facilitate the development of a coordinated response, beginning in 1990, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts spearheaded the creation of a network of Family Violence Coordinating Councils (FVCC) across 22 judicial circuits in the state. The creation of councils is a common approach to encouraging cross-system, interagency collaboration,1 but, there is limited empirical evidence regarding whether such council-based approaches facilitate desired changes in the response to IPV in Illinois or other states (Allen 2005, 2006; Allen
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