Laura Dugan

TL;DR: The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is described, a previously unavailable open source data base that includes some 70,000 domestic and international incidents since 1970 is described and descriptive statistics on the contents of this new resource are provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain the two-decades-long decline in the intimate partner homicide rate in the United States in terms of three factors that reduce exposure to violent relationships: shifts in marriage, divorce, and other factors associated with declining domesticity; the improved economic status of women; and increases in the availability of domestic violence services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relationship between intimate-partner homicide and domestic violence prevention resources in 48 large cities between 1976 and 1996 and conclude that too little exposure reduction in severely violent relationships may be worse than none at all.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six major British strategies aimed at reducing political violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 and then use a Cox proportional hazard model to estimate the impact of these interventions on the risk of new attacks.

TL;DR: Investigation of a popular batterers's intervention program in reducing repeated violence among men who were convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence found no significant differences between the experimental and control groups in their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding domestic violence.