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)
THEORY OF CAUSE (PROBLEM)
Theory of Cause applies theory to describe the root cause of the problem that a program seeks to prevent or reduce.
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A Root Cause |
B Consequence |
C Current Problem |
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Example: Young people and adults have been socialized to tolerate and even benefit from relationship/intimate partner violence.
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Young people and adults are not aware of: 1) the possibility that relationship/intimate partner violence should not be tolerated AT ALL; 2) the spectrum, types and indicators of relationship violence; and, 3) do not have the skills or support to stop their own violence or their own experience of others’ violence. |
High rates of relationship/intimate partner violence. |
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Your Theory of Cause:
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