Inter-Agency Response to Domestic Violence in a Medium Sized City

This study examines one city’s efforts to reduce domestic violence through the coordinated work of the city police department and a wide range of criminal justice, social services, and community agencies. This research entailed study of an inter-agency domestic violence coalition, the Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee (DVCC), as well as two separate exploratory analyses of the city police department’s domestic violence data. After presenting the methodology and literature review, the findings of this study are presented in two parts.