Intimate partner violence against women and domestic violence (e.g. child maltreatment) are important social and public health problems and human rights violations. Even though significant progress has been made in the last few decades with respect to the acknowledgment and understanding of these social problems, there are still numerous questions, challenges and controversies that must be addressed in order to better understand and prevent them.
The VIO-STRATEGY research group uses advanced and innovative research strategies to better understand intimate partner violence against women and child maltreatment with the goal of improving prevention and intervention strategies. Through the combined efforts of our group of researchers at the University of Valencia and a group of national and international collaborators, VIO-STRATEGY conducts research in six thematic areas:
- Biopsychosocial characteristics of perpetrators of intimate partner violence
- Evidence-based intervention with intimate partner violence perpetrators
- Attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women
- Neighborhoods, violence and other social problems
- Prevalence of violence against women in intimate partner relationships: The Nordic Paradox
- Violence in parent-child relationships: Child maltreatment
Based on the analysis of the interrelationships and connections between these lines of research, a process of cross-fertilization is expected to facilitate the development of novel approaches and alternatives in the research of intimate partner violence and domestic violence that will help foster new perspectives for a more integral approach to the prevention of these social problems.
