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Evaluating a Multi-Disciplinary Response to Domestic Violence in Colorado Springs, 1996-1999

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Principal Investigator(s): Uchida, Craig D.,; Putnam, Carol A.; Mastrofski, Jennifer; Solomon, Shellie; Dawson, Deborah

Summary: The Colorado Springs Police Department formed a nontraditional domestic violence unit in 1996 called the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT). This unit involved a partnership and collaboration with the Center for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, a private, nonprofit victim advocacy organization, and 25 other city and county agencies. DVERT was unique in its focus on the safety of the victim over the arrest and prosecution of the batterer. It was also different from the tr... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03282.v1

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