Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit
A Manual for Domestic Violence Prevention Practitioners
(and the State and Local Policy-Makers They Present to)
Overview Of This Chapter (6)
This chapter explains why understanding the root causes of domestic violence is critical to designing an effective prevention program and introduces the concept of a “theory of change” that describes why a prevention program’s efforts will lead to specific outcomes. At the end of the chapter, there are worksheets to help you think through your prevention program’s theory or approach.