title: NIJ's Program of Domestic Violence Research: collaborative efforts to build knowledge guided by safety for victims and accountability of perpetrators.
abstract: The primary focus of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ's) Violence Against Women (VAW) research and evaluation program has been domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence (IPV). The program has supported over 200 studies that have centered on definition and measurement, victims and perpetrators, children, contexts and consequences of domestic violence, and civil and criminal justice interventions and processes responding to these crimes. Funding approaches in the program have employed grants for research and evaluation, demonstration programs with partner agencies, joint funding of research through interagency agreements, and collaborations with agencies and organizations sharing common objectives. Results have influenced policy and practices, particularly results from those studies conducted by researcher-practitioner collaborations. NIJ's success in the development and progress of this program is attributed to the initial vision that included researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in an ongoing discourse about what is known and needs to be known. The terms domestic violence and IPV are used interchangeably throughout the article.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Justice, Bethesda, MD, USA. bernieauchter@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Auchter
authors.forename: Bethany L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Backes
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019548:Crime Victims; D057237:Criminals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research; D012449:Safety; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D016387:Women's Health
keywords: domestic violence; federal funding; violence against women