scholarly journals Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal, eds., Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018), 243 pp.

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-108
Author(s):  
M. Kuester
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American Studies

Comparative North American Studies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reingard M. Nischik
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American Studies

Evaluating Criminal Justice Interventions for Domestic Violence

2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Emerson Dobash ◽  
Russell P. Dobash
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
North American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Violent Men

In this article, the authors consider various approaches to the evaluation of criminal justice interventions in the area of domestic violence. Evaluations have been conducted on a range of interventions, but this article focuses particularly on evaluations of arrest and programs for violent abusers. The authors contrast randomized designs used in the primarily North American studies of arrest with the extant evaluations of abuser programs and argue for the use of more theoretically informed contextual evaluations of criminal justice interventions. Using their own 3-year evaluation study of two Scottish abuser programs, the authors demonstrate how the contextual approach is attuned to both outcome and process and results in more empirically informed assessments of how change is achieved in the behavior and orientations of violent men. The authors argue that evaluations of criminal justice-based interventions should be designed to fit the phenomena under consideration as well as the intervention itself.

scholarly journals International differences in home treatment for mental health problems

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (5) ◽  
pp. 375-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Burns ◽  
Jocelyn Catty ◽  
Hilary Watt ◽  
Christine Wright ◽  
Martin Knapp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
North American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Home Treatment ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Location Service ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Meta Analyses

BackgroundIt is perceived that North American home treatment studies reveal greater success in reducing days in hospital than do European studies. There are difficulties in extrapolating findings internationally.AimsWe aimed to determine whether North American studies find greater reductions in days in hospital and whether experimental service patients in North American studies spend less time in hospital.MethodThe results of a systematic review were analysed with respect to study location. Service components ascertained through follow-up were utilised to interpret the meta-analyses conducted.ResultsMost of the 91 studies found were from the USA and UK. North American studies found a difference of one hospital day (per patient per month) more than European studies but there was no difference in experimental data between the two locations.ConclusionsNorth American studies demonstrate greater differences in days in hospital but patients in their experimental services seem to spend no fewer days in hospital, implying a disparity in control services.

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