ISR Receives $400,000 Grant

The Baylor Program on Prosocial Behavior, a unit within the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR), has received a $400,000 grant from the Office on Violence Against Women in the U.S. Department of Justice to continue the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI), a program to study domestic violence fatalities and assist agencies and communities in the prevention of domestic violence. This grant is the most recent in a line of several substantial awards over the past decade.
Based at Baylor, the NDVFRI is the first program of its kind, creating a resource center dedicated to domestic violence fatality review. When the research began 10 years ago, there were only a handful of fatality review teams in the U.S., and now there are hundreds of teams in some 40 states, said Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of sociology and co-director of ISR.