Gender-Based Violence Database

Jami Ake Douglas Knox

Evidence-Based Practice …and Its Challenges

Other Available Resources MINCAVA Clearinghouse: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse https://www.mincava.umn.edu/ Domestic Violence Evidence Project http://www.dvevidenceproject.org/ VAWnet National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women http://www.vawnet.org/

MINCAVA

Domestic Violence Evidence Project

VAWnet

Evolution of the Schema Mapping the field: issues Initial categories/tags Testing: reading and tagging available sources Hypothesizing about what might be out there Debating accuracy, terminology, etc. Extent of coverage moving forward (what should be included “in the field”?)

The Early Schema

The Early Schema

The Early Schema

Tags and their meanings

Applying the Schema

Editing the Schema

A Browsing Interface

A Browsing Interface

Intersections