NCJ Number
178885
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 5 Issue: 10 Dated: October 1999 Pages: 1097-1226
Editor(s)
Stephanie Riger
Date Published
October 1999
Length
129 pages
Annotation
These six articles and an introduction present the findings of collaborative research projects that focused on violence against women and ways to address it; involved advocates and researchers; and took place in varied settings, including a manufacturing plant, welfare offices, social service agencies, and health clinics.
Abstract
The editor's introduction notes that collaboration between advocates and researchers on research about violence against women has become increasingly important in recent years due to recognition by both groups of the benefits of working together and due to the mandates of funding sources. The introduction also suggests ways for collaborators to negotiate the sources of tension in this collaborative research. These sources include issues of trust, power, control, the time perspective, expertise, and the stressful emotions generated by violence against women. The first article describes the development and process of a collaboration to document the prevalence and effects of domestic assault among recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children in Massachusetts. The second paper discusses development of a collaboration between a shelter for battered women and a university school of nursing to provide health services, nursing student education, action research, program evaluation and improvement, and data for policy change. Further papers explain the role of collaboration in the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study and describe a collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a domestic assault prevention program for 900 employees in a garment factory. Other papers discuss a group approach to creating collaboration among researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers in research on violence against women and recommend the use of participatory evaluation as a means of bringing researchers and advocates together as colleagues rather than adversaries in evaluation research. Tables and chapter reference lists