Video and Multimedia

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Web Resource: Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Womenhealth.gov

Description: This website includes information about domestic and intimate partner violence and resources for victims if they need help.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Web Resource: Curbing Intimate Partner Violence is a Tall Task

Description: This Pacific Standard magazine article describes two studies that examined prevention and intervention for domestic violence victims the effectiveness of each.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on IPV victims including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: What I See: A Domestic Violence Short Film

Description: This video illustrates Paul, a respected member of society. Behind closed doors, his wife and son know a different man. This illustrates physical and emotional abuse through the child’s eyes.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Summarize the consequences of IPV for victims.

Video Resource: Program Aims to Protect More Domestic Violence Victims

Description: This brief news segment describes a program that would allow officers to prevent deaths related to domestic violence through a program called Lethality Assessment. This assessment would require officers to sit down with domestic violence victims and asks them series of questions to determine their risk.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on IPV victims including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: What is Domestic Violence?

Description: In this video Karen Borders, a domestic violence expert, provides an overview on domestic violence, describes what it looks like, and who it affects.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: The Pentagon Channel Recognizes Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Description: Kenya Fairley, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Glenna Tinney, Battered Women's Justice Project, and Brian Namey, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the National Network to End Domestic Violence, discuss on of the most insidious and common crimes worldwide: domestic violence.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.