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

(协作博士奖)项目背景家庭虐待对个人和家庭造成严重伤害，仍然是公共服务的长期挑战。在英国，估计有650万成年人直接经历过家庭暴力(2018-19年，8.4%的女性和4.2%的男性)。大多数服务仍然将确保自身安全的责任放在受害者和家属身上，通常是通过采取个人成本较高的措施，如离家出走。很少有人与肇事者接触，以阻止虐待行为。如果不能有效地对付肇事者，暴力和虐待行为和态度就不会受到挑战。而且它有取代而不是减少家庭虐待的风险。伊斯灵顿委员会针对妇女和女孩的暴力行为服务最近收到了200万英镑的资金，用于改造其家庭虐待条款。开发新的和创新的措施来接触和对付犯罪者是一个关键的优先事项。项目的目的和目标这个三年全额资助的学生项目将给博士研究人员提供机会与伊斯灵顿和埃塞克斯大学犯罪学中心的专家学者团队合作，就如何减少犯罪者造成的伤害提出新的发现和建议。项目主管与政府和关键的家庭暴力组织有着密切的关系。成功的候选人将被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.