title: Collaborating with police departments: recruitment in the Oklahoma Lethality Assessment (OK-LA) study.
abstract: In a study to evaluate a collaborative police and social service intervention, researchers asked police officers to recruit intimate partner violence victims at the scene of domestic violence incidents. This article reviews the process of building successful partnerships with police departments as well as the strategies developed with collaborating police departments to create successful recruitment methods and enhance officer and department engagement with recruitment procedures. Over a period of 298 days, 800 victims were referred to the research study. Of these referrals, we were unable to contact 41.3%; of those contacted (n = 471), we conducted interviews with 67.73%.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA. Jill.Messing@asu.edu
authors.forename: Jill Theresa
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Messing
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cimino
authors.forename: Jacquelyn C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Sheryll
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Patchell
authors.forename: Janet Sullivan
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009825:Oklahoma; D018579:Patient Selection; D016495:Police; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013179:Spouse Abuse