Policing domestic violence: evaluation of the Project 360 intervention
Dr. Jesse Matheson worked with the Leicestershire police force to design and evaluate a new intervention aimed at improving the response to police reported domestic violence.
Dr. Jesse Matheson of the School of Economics has worked with the Leicestershire police force to design and evaluate a new intervention aimed at improving the response to police reported domestic violence. Funding for this study was provided by the Ministry of Justice Police and Crime Commissioner Fund.
The Project 360 intervention assists victims of police-reported domestic abuse in transitioning from police services to non-police support services. Specifically, following a police callout for domestic violence, victims are assigned an engagement officer. The engagement officer contacts victims within 24 hours and provides assistance accessing the many public support services available to victims such as refuge housing, emotional support, and legal support.
The randomised trial of Project 360 ran from November 2014 to April 2015 and involved more than 1,000 victims of police-reported domestic violence. The evaluation looked at a number of outcomes including victim use of police and non-police services, victim-reported well-being and attitudes towards police, and repeat victimization over two years following the intervention.
The evaluation of Project 360 has informed policy makers across the UK, in addition to many local police forces, local councils, and non-police organizations.
Outputs
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., J. Matheson and R. Plugor, 2019. 鈥淧roject 360: An intervention to address victim-police engagement in repeat domestic violence cases鈥, .
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., and J. Matheson, 2017. 鈥淚mproving police response to domestic abuse: Findings from Project 360鈥, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, 59, 4鈥7.
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., J. Matheson and R. Plugor, 2019. 鈥淯nderstanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention鈥, SERPS working paper no. 2019013.
A summary of this paper is available on the .
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., J. Matheson and R. Plugor, 2019. 鈥淒omestic Violence Support Services and Repeat Victimization: New RCT Evidence鈥