NCJ Number
224620
Journal
Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume: 19 Issue: 12 Dated: December 2004 Pages: 1365-1368
Date Published
December 2004
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article introduces a special two-part issue on violence against women.
Abstract
In 2002, the University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women was formed and undertook as part of its mission to offer a contribution to the national research agenda. With that aim, a research conference was subsequently held and the conference commissioned 10 papers on select contemporary questions regarding violence against women, asking each author to summarize the extant literature and to identify needs for future empirical study. The commissioned papers and the discussion that followed them are collected in this two-part special issue, which does not presume to set the nation's research agenda on violence against women, nor is it the first attempt to contribute to how that agenda might be informed. Instead, this issue continues the dialogue about the empirical study of violence against women started by and participated in by many others before. The authors note that any attempt at something so important, with such an auspicious title, carries with it the acknowledged risk of being considered inadequate. The commissioned papers are formulated around major empirical questions, including: defining violence against women; articulating its primary health and mental health consequences; ascertaining if the legal system provides adequate safety for women; identifying what women need to know about risk; determining if substance use plays a role; discussing the implications of race and ethnicity with respect to abuse perpetration; observing any common typology for offenders; and seeing how researchers and advocates can collaborate toward the common end of quality research. References