Fortson, B.L., Klevens, J., Merrick, M.T., Gilbert, L.K., & Alexander, S.P. (2016).
Preventing child abuse and neglect: A technical package for policy, norm and programmatic activities. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Summary: This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting... Read more 

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (2014). Essentials for childhood: Steps to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Summary: Safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are essential to prevent child abuse and neglect and to assure all children reach their full potential. The Essentials for Childhood Framework proposes strategies... Read more  

Erez, E., Ibarra, P.R., Bales, W.D., & Gur, O.M. (2012).
GPS monitoring technologies and domestic violence: An evaluation study. A research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice.  
Summary: This study examines the implementation of Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring technology in enforcing court mandated "no contact" orders in domestic violence  cases... Read more 

Fisher, D., Lang, K.S., & Wheaton, J. (2010).
Training professionals in the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence: A planning guide. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Summary: An effective, comprehensive program to prevent sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence takes a multitude of approaches, one of which is training professionals... Read more 

Logar, R., & Vargová, B.M. (2016).
Effective multi-agency co-operation for preventing and combating domestic violence: Training of trainers manual. Council of Europe.
Summary: This manual was developed in association with WAVE Network in Europe. The manual aims 'to serve as a resource for trainers to explore some of the benefits and key principles of multi-agency work for supporting victims of domestic violence... Read more 

McKenzie, M., Kirkwood, D., Tyson, D., & Naylor, B. (2016). Out of character?: Legal responses to intimate partner homicides by men in Victoria 2005 - 2014 (DVRCV Discussion Paper, no. 10). Melbourne, Vic.: Domestic Violence Research Centre Victoria.
Summary: This discussion paper provides an overview of 51 cases of intimate partner homicide by men in Victoria, with an analysis of how family violence was recognised in homicide prosecutions. It includes a chapter on intimate partner homicides by women in Victoria... Read more 

Moore, T., McDonald, M., McHugh-Dillon, H., & West, S. (2016).
Community engagement: A key strategy for improving outcomes for Australian families (CFCA paper, no.39).  Melbourne, Vic.: Child Family Community Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Summary: This paper seeks to clarify what community engagement involves, how it relates to other ideas and practices, and the role it can play in improving outcomes for children and families... Read more 

Summary: Throughout the world, with a few exceptions, the legal and policy responses to domestic violence are typically built on a violence model that equates partner abuse with discrete assaults or threats. Implicit in this response is the assumption that the severity of domestic violence can be assessed by applying a calculus of physical and psychological harms to particular assaults. This paper argues that reliance on the violence model limits the efficacy of current interventions because it masks the scope of most partner abuse and minimises the harms it causes... Read more 

Abramsky, T., Devries, K.M., Michau, L., Nakuti, J., Musuya, T., Kiss, L., Kyegombe, N., & Watts, C., (2016).
Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?
BMC Public Health, 16: 339.
Summary: This secondary analysis of data from the SASA! study explores the pathways through which SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women, achieved community-wide reductions in physical IPV... Read more 

Arnold, G., & Ake, J. (2013).
Reframing the narrative of the battered women's movement.
Violence Against Women, 19(5): 557-578.
Summary: Many claim that the battered women's movement has been co-opted and depoliticized. The authors argue that this narrative of decline should be reframed as one of continual growth that has incorporated evolving feminist frameworks... Read more

Cooper, C., Barber, J., Griffin, M., Rapaport, P.,  & Livingston, G. (2016).
Effectiveness of START psychological intervention in reducing abuse by dementia family carers: Randomized controlled trial.
International Psychogeriatrics, 28(6): 881-887.
Summary: The researchers investigated whether START (STrAtegies for RelaTives), a psychological intervention which reduces depression and anxiety in family carers also reduces abusive behavior in carers of people living in their own homes... Read more 

Rivas, C., Ramsay, J., Sadowski, L., Davidson, L.L., Dunne, D., Eldridge, S., Hegarty, K., Taft, A., & Feder, G. (2015).

Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well-being of women who experience intimate partner abuse.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 12.
Summary: Based on the evidence reviewed, intensive advocacy may improve short-term quality of life and reduce physical abuse one to two years after the intervention for women recruited from domestic violence shelters or refuges... Read more 

Affilia, Advance online publication, 21 April 2016.
Summary: Colleges are working to study and address sexual assault and dating violence on campus. This quantitative systematic review assessed 196 studies to evaluate if the literature fully reflects the demographics of American higher education... Read more