Domestic Abuse in the Armed Forces

📖 The Scoop

Domestic abuse is among many harmful behaviors of concern to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) because of its consequences for military personnel, their families, and military readiness. RAND's National Defense Research Institute is conducting a multi-year research effort, requested by Congress in Section 546C of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, to study domestic abuse from a variety of perspectives. In the first phase of this study, the RAND team focused its work on identifying strategies that can help DoD and the Services prevent domestic abuse among service members and their spouses or partners before it occurs and strategies that could be effective in the military environment for outreach and communication to individuals who might have risk factors for domestic abuse. The prevention and outreach strategies highlighted in this research were synthesized from recommendations made by 80 experts-domestic abuse survivor experts and advocates, military program or service providers and practitioners, military leaders, and domestic abuse scholars-and a scoping review of relevant literature published in the past two decades.

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