Reducing domestic abuse harms: a multi-agency approach to working with perpetrators

（合作博士奖）项目背景家庭虐待对个人和家庭造成严重伤害，仍然是公共服务的一个持续挑战。在英国，估计有650万成年人直接经历过家庭虐待（2018 -19年女性占8.4%，男性占4.2%）。大多数服务机构仍然把责任放在受害者和家庭身上，让他们努力保护自己的安全，往往采取个人代价很高的措施，如离开自己的家。很少有人与肇事者接触，首先停止虐待。如果不能有效处理肇事者，暴力和虐待行为和态度就不会受到质疑。而且它有可能取代而不是减少家庭虐待。伊斯灵顿理事会暴力侵害妇女和女孩服务中心最近收到了2. 2亿英镑，用于改造其家庭虐待条款。开发新的和创新的措施，从事和处理肇事者是一个关键的优先事项。项目的目的和objectivesThis 3年的全额资助的学生将给博士研究员有机会与伊斯灵顿和专家学者团队在埃塞克斯大学的犯罪学中心，就如何减少肇事者造成的伤害提出新的调查结果和建议。项目主管与政府和主要的家庭暴力组织。成功的候选人将获得支持，成为该领域的重要独立学者，并发展强大的学术生涯。

(Collaborative Doctoral Award)Project backgroundDomestic abuse causes serious harm to individuals and families and remains a persistent challenge for public services. Inthe UK, 6.5 million adults are estimated to have directly experienced domestic abuse (8.4% of women and 4.2% of men in2018-19). Most services still place the onus on victims and families, to try to keep themselves safe, often by takingmeasures with a high personal cost, such as leaving their home. Few engage with perpetrators to stop the abuse in the firstplace. A failure to deal effectively with perpetrators leaves violent and abusive behaviours and attitudes unchallenged. And it risks displacing rather than reducing domestic abuse.Islington Council Violence against Women and Girls Service has recently received £2million to transform its domesticabuse provision. Developing new and innovative measures to engage and deal with perpetrators is a key priority.Project aims and objectivesThis 3-year fully funded studentship will give a PhD researcher the opportunity to work with Islington and a team of expert academics at the University of Essex's centre for criminology, to produce new findings and recommendations on how to reduce the harm caused by perpetrators.Project supervisors have strong relationships with government and with key domestic abuse organisations. The successful candidate will be supported to become an important independent scholar in the field and develop a strong academic career.