Citation

Messing JT, Cimino A, Campbell JC, Brown S, Patchell B, Wilson JS. Violence Against Women 2011; 17(2): 163-176.

Affiliation

Arizona State University, Phoenix. Jill.Messing@asu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801210397700

PMID

21307027

Abstract

In a study to evaluate a collaborative police and social service intervention, researchers asked police officers to recruit intimate partner violence victims at the scene of domestic violence incidents. This article reviews the process of building successful partnerships with police departments as well as the strategies developed with collaborating police departments to create successful recruitment methods and enhance officer and department engagement with recruitment procedures. Over a period of 298 days, 800 victims were referred to the research study. Of these referrals, we were unable to contact 41.3%; of those contacted ( n = 471), we conducted interviews with 67.73%.

Language: en