Abstract
Across all areas of interpersonal violence, women and children experience a disproportionate amount of violence in their day-to-day lives at the hands of those who are assumed to love and protect them. The Violence against Women Act (VAWA), originally enacted by the United States Congress in 1994 and reauthorized in 2000 and 2008, as well as the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s CDC Injury Research Agenda, 2009–2018 (2009) and the article “Child Maltreatment Prevention Priorities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” (Whitaker, Lutzker, & Shelly, 2005), attest to the priority and concern for responding to and reducing victimization of women and children. The two volumes in this series were conceived to systematize scientific information on child abuse and maltreatment, domestic violence, and sexual violence. Our goal in this chapter is to synthesize the material to identify commonalities and gaps in existing knowledge from which we could draw conclusions on next steps to further the research and services agenda. Emerging from these chapters are consensus themes and recommendations on future directions. In this concluding chapter, we identify commonalities on the basis of what we know, how we know it, and gaps in knowledge, and we offer practical suggestions for where to go in epidemiology, study of causes and impact, training, policy, interventions, prevention, and, most of all, initiatives that fall within what disciplines have done in the past and perhaps could do better with collaboration. In the following three sections, we address major common themes and shared methodological issues, and we conclude with consensus recommendations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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