PRINCIPLES
The seven key principles underlying the Theory of Change are that: 1. Context is critical: successful interventions are those that are tailored and based on rigorous analysis of the particular factors affecting violence against women and girls in a specific context, including setting, form of violence and population affected by the violence.
2. The state has primary responsibility for action on violence against women and girls: …show more content…
Local crime creates more distress for females, and is mainly related to depression and anxiety.
Crime leads to distress for a large part of the population throughchannels other than direct victimization.
• These indirect costs of crime, through inflictingfear and anxiety, and leading to changes in daily routines and behavior (Hamermesh, 1999; Braakman, forthcoming), may be far larger than the direct costs.
• While the direct costs(response costs of police and the Criminal Justice System, and costs through the impact onvictims) are routinely assessed, evaluations of indirect costs, including those of non-victimsare overlooked.
Burglary, car theft and vandalism are the crime types which seem to causemajor anguish. When distinguishing between men and women, we find that women are more responsive to changes in crime rates than men.Based on the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment, arandomized experiment on residential mobility conducted in five US cities in the 1990s, anumber of studies have shown that moving away from deprived (high crime)neighbourhoods leads to significant improvements in adult physical and mental health andsubjective well‐being in the short‐ (Katz et al. 2001), medium‐ (Kling et al. 2007) and longterm (Ludwig et al. 2012). Following an influential independent report on healthinequalities produced in the late ´90s (Acheson, 1998), the British Department