Coordinator's BLOG

Joachim KerstenProf. Dr. Joachim Kersten is Senior Research Professor and Guest Professor of Criminal Sociology at the German Police University. With his blog he emphasizes the importance of research on domestic violence. Moreover, he gives personal insights into the coordination of the IMPRODOVA project. Moreover, he regularly invites members of the IMPRODOVA Consortium to write about topics related to the management of domestic abuse in their respective national settings.

 

Living up to a gold standard? The implementation of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act

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Progress on tackling violence against women is too small – the latest WHO prevalence estimates report 2010-2018 indicates that little progress being made!

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Law Enforcement and Public Health: An Insightful Conference

During the last two weeks, roughly a thousand participants, police practitioners, public health professionals, researchers and academics from criminology and other fields, joined the remote Philadelphia Public Health and Law Enforcement Conference (LEPH 2021). IMPRODOVA researchers took part with a panel introducing the project, presenting the training tools, and with a talk on the seemingly contradictory development of domestic violence/abuse incidence in our partner countries. During the initial lockdown periods in some cases, rates have increased but not in the dimension that was predicted by experts and media. Our researchers have looked at police data, victim studies where available, numbers of restraining orders, demand for counselling and shelter accommodation, and other indicators of a rise in DV occurrence. The report will soon be published as a Criminology Briefs book.

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Domestic violence in migrant and refugee communities

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Research on domestic violence - Why do we do it?

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Significance of the Children's House and IMPRODOVA projects for effective high impact violence management in Slovenia

Due to its nature, domestic violence is often concealed. It occurs behind the walls of apartments and houses, away from the public eye, neighbours and supervisory institutions. Considering the findings of family therapy, the developments in a family are isolated from its surroundings by means of invisible psychological, often impenetrable barriers. The barriers make the impact of supervisory and social institutions, such as the police, social work centres and schools, restricted and limited. This is especially true when things that are considered to be domestic violence occur in the family. We already want to keep the lives we lead at home private, and silence and concealment are further enhanced when domestic violence occurs within the family.

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Considerations on domestic violence – Japanese and German perspectives

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Women must not pay the price for COVID-19! Good practice examples to prevent further risk to victims of male violence

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Patrol police officers are isolated actors in the chain of domestic violence prevention work

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Hungary - Fatal incidents raising attention to striking problems of the frontline response

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