DWC NIJ VAWA Panel “Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: Working Towards Making the Criminal Justice System's Response to Violence Against Women Efficient and Effective”

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Researcher-practitioner partnerships are one of the best ways to ensure the value of research for both academics and practitioners in the field. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) have devoted a great deal of effort to and investments in promoting research collaborations in the criminal justice system. The Department’s support of researcher-practitioner partnerships stretches back decades because these partnerships are an efficient mechanism to implementing rigorous research that informs policies and changes practices that have on-the-ground impacts. This panel will spotlight three Department-funded studies with the researchers and practitioners from each project discussing the process and substance of their collaboration including lessons learned, challenges and successes experienced, and overall reflections. This is a Division on Woman & Crime and National Institute of Justice co-sponsored panel on violence against women.

Sub Unit

• Area V. Victimization / 38. Policy and Prevention of Victimization

Division of Special Interest

• Division Session of Interest / Division on Women & Crime

Individual Presentations

• Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative - Christopher D. Maxwell, Michigan State University; John Guard, Pitt County Sheriff's Department

• A Partnership to Investigate the Impacts of Institutional and Contextual Factors on Protection Order Decision-Making - Alesha Durfee, Arizona State University; Paul Thomas, The Mesa Municipal Court

• CASE IPV: Making the Case for Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships - Kathryn (Beth) E. Moracco, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Stephanie Satkowiak, North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts

Chair

• Lane Kirkland Gillespie, Boise State University