The 1994 Violence Against Women Act: A Historic Response to Gender Violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-29
Author(s):  
Angela R. Gover ◽  
Angela M. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Violence Against Women Act ◽  
Private Organizations

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is frequently questioned about its success, especially during times of its reauthorization. While federal, state, local, and private organizations have funded a significant amount of research through VAWA since its inception, questions remain as to whether the field has the evidence to make a concrete judgment about its success. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we review the Act and its subsequent reauthorizations. Second, the article addresses issues related to VAWA’s success. We consider whether it is possible to answer Moore Parmley’s question posed in 2004, p. 1,428: “ . . . on the anniversary of the VAWA, will we be able to say with any confidence that the Act helped to prevent violence against women?”

Developing a National Plan of Action on Violence against Women and Gender Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 362-378
Author(s):  
Caroline Bettinger-López
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
National Plan ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Violence Against Women Act ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Gender

International human rights treaties and monitoring bodies have repeatedly called upon governments to develop national plans of action to eliminate violence against women. Although the U.S. is a global leader in the violence against women arena, it has never developed a national plan of action. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), despite its substantial contributions, does not contain some of the core features of a national action plan—such as a strategic vision for ending violence against women, or a declaration that violence against women is a human rights violation and a form of sex discrimination, or a set of goals or benchmarks to measure progress. This chapter examines the key elements of national action plans on violence against women, and ultimately argues that in the Trump era, a national action plan can best be developed through coordinated action at the state and local levels.

Evaluation of the STOP Formula Grants to Combat Violence Against Women: The Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 2000 Report

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha R. Burt ◽  
Janine M. Zweig ◽  
Kathryn Schlichter ◽  
Stacey Kamya ◽  
Bonnie L. Katz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Violence Against Women Act

Evaluation of the STOP Formula Grants to Combat Violence Against Women: The Violence Against Women Act of 1994--1999 Report

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha R. Burt ◽  
Adele V. Harrell ◽  
Lisa Jacobs Raymond ◽  
Britta Iwen ◽  
Kathryn Schlichter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Violence Against Women Act

Evaluation of the STOP Formula Grants 2000 Report: The Violence Against Women Act of 1994

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha R. Burt ◽  
Janine M. Zweig ◽  
Kathryn Schlichter ◽  
Stacey Kamya ◽  
Bonnie L. Katz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Violence Against Women Act

1998 Report: Evaluation of the STOP Formula Grants Under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha R. Burt ◽  
Lisa C. Newmark ◽  
Lisa K. Jacobs ◽  
Adele V. Harrell
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Violence Against Women Act

scholarly journals The Gender Violence - Implicit Association Test to measure attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez ◽  
Andrés Sánchez-Prada ◽  
Carmen Delgado-Álvarez ◽  
Esperanza Bosch-Fiol
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Implicit Measurement ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

Abstract Attitudes play a central role in intimate partner violence against women and are related to its origin, to the responses of women who suffer violence, and to the settings where it occurs. In fact, these attitudes are recognized as one of the risk factors linked to violent perpetration and to public, professional, and victim responses to this type of violence. However, even though available research generally shows a broad rejection of this violence, it remains a serious social and health problem that has reached epidemic proportions. This suggests that the information available about these attitudes (obtained through explicit and direct measures, i.e., self-reports) may be distorted or influenced by factors such as social desirability. In this context, the overall objective of our research project is to provide multi-method measures (explicit and implicit) of attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women, and the main goal of this paper is to propose an instrument for the implicit measurement of these attitudes. In this regard, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) is the most common procedure used, providing a superior predictive validity compared to explicit measures for socially sensitive topics. We will present an exploratory study that describes its adaptation for our purposes, and the development of the Gender Violence - Implicit Association Test (GV-IAT) to use among Spanish-speaking populations, and discuss the strengths and limitations of this proposal.

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