Assessment of Variation in US State Laws Addressing the Prevention of and Response to Teen Dating Violence in Secondary Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Teen dating violence (TDV) is widespread and has adverse consequences across the life course. Many US states are actively seeking strategies to prevent and address TDV in schools, including enactment and implementation of TDV laws. These state laws are upstream, system-level interventions that lay the foundation for an array of downstream targeted interventions to be deployed in schools. Despite these laws gaining momentum in the past decade, there has been minimal research examining their content and variability.

Objective

To assess the content and comprehensiveness of US state laws addressing prevention of and response to TDV in secondary schools.

Design, setting, and participants

A team of public health and legal researchers used systematic policy survei

SUBMITTER: Adhia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9194746 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature