domestic violence

In partnership with Cuyahoga County, researchers and court officials will establish new docket to address high-risk cases According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in four women and one in seven men in the United States will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. The numbers in N...

Study involving Case Western Reserve University identifies ways to break the cycle Studies have shown that male victims of domestic violence are at greater risk of growing up to be perpetrators themselves. New research, done in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University, suggests potential...

Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Laura Voith, assistant professor at the Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will present the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Research Semi...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found 45 percent of victims were at high risk for homicide and severe assault, in a one-year assessment Victims of domestic violence are at a high risk to be murdered—or a victim of attempted murder—according to a Cuyahoga County task force of criminal-...

One in four Ohio children will experience domestic violence before reaching adulthood, according to a new study. The lifetime cost from these experiences is nearly $2.2 billion, including $476 million in increased health care, $600 million associated with crime and $1.1 billion in productivity loss...