Violence Prevention: A Coordinated Community Response Approach

• In Event: Roundtable: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Policy

Abstract

Coordinated Community Response (CCR) refers to community wide efforts to bring together relevant stakeholders to address complex social problems (e.g., intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse). Efforts to coordinate responses to social problems developed out of the awareness that many stakeholders interact with victims and have a potential role to play in responding to their needs. Unless these stakeholders work together in a coordinated way, there will be gaps and duplication in the response. The “Duluth Model” was the first in 1981 to coin the phrase “Coordinated Community Response” wherein law enforcement, criminal and civil courts, and human service providers work together to make communities safer for victims of domestic violence. The core concepts of coordination of responses are now being applied to prevention efforts but there is little scholarly work detailing it. Using data from fieldwork in developing CCR’s in different settings (campuses, small communities, large communities, police jurisdictions etc.) in different countries (USA, Egypt, Greece etc.) this presentation will discuss the commonalities and differences of the approach in varied political and cultural settings. It will provide a theoretical basis for CCR’s in violence prevention strategies enabling policy and practice recommendations at both local and global levels.

Author

• Sheetal Ranjan, William Paterson University