Children are living in most homes where there is domestic violence. ‘Research on children who witness family violence is a special case of counting the hard-to-count and measuring the hard-to measure...’ (Fantuzzo, Boruch, Beriana, Atkins & Marcus, 1997; p.121), so it is impossible to be definitive about the number of families affected. However, several studies have found that 85-90% of the tim...

• The Clark County Domestic Violence Court has improved the County's ability to deal with domestic violence perpetrators and victims. • Given the apparent increase in domestic violence cases in Clark County there may be a need to allocate additional resources to the court. • There is a need to conduct an outcome evaluation of the Clark County Domestic Violence Court, with a specific focus on th...

Maximizing science achievement is a critical target of educational policy and has important implications for national and international economic and technological competitiveness. Previous research has identified both science interest and socioeconomic status (SES) as robust predictors of science achievement, but little research has examined their joint effects. In a data set drawn from approxi...

This thesis addresses the following question: How should domestic networks be reinvented to support self-management by domestic users? It takes a user-centred design approach to redesign the underlying domestic network infrastructure to better fit domestic users. The overall aim of this work is to create user-centred mechanisms to support self-management of domestic networks by domestic users. ...

Renovation and modernization can lead to changes in various fields, including material and immaterial values of the family. The process of cultural modernization has also brought about changes in the socio-cultural context of societies that have led to changes in family values. Therefore, the present study was aimed at the effect of cultural modernization on family values among high school stud...

Children who live in homes characterised by violence between parents, or directed at one parent by another, have been called the ‘silent’, ‘forgotten’, ‘unintended’, ‘invisible’ and/or ‘secondary’ victims of domestic violence (Edleson 1999; Kovacs & Tomison 2003; Tomison 2000). Recently, however, children’s exposure to domestic violence, and the effects that this exposure can have, has been inc...

In recent years a coercive criminal justice response has been promoted as the appropriate response to control and deter perpetrators of domestic violence. In varying degrees, across western democracies, pro-arrest and mandatory arrest policies, no-drop prosecution, and tougher penalties have been proposed and implemented. However, recent literature and research on domestic violence has question...

Dinshaw Mistry is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is currently in residence at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He has recently published articles on the Indian space program (Pacific Affairs) and the missile nonproliferation regime (Contemporary Security Policy). DOMESTIC-INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES: INDIA AND THE COMPREHENSI...