National
Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women
USA
- INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE PREVENTION
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The most tragic consequence of domestic violence is undoubtedly the death of
one or both intimate partners, and in some cases, their children or family and
friends of the victim. Intimate partner homicide is the final assertion of
power and control in an abusive relationship and, paradoxically, an
acknowledgment of the abuser’s loss of control (Websdale, 1999).
Although intimate partner homicide has declined over the past decades (especially
among male victims), the available research shows that women are more likely to
be killed by an intimate partner (husband, boyfriend, same-sex partner, or ex)
than by anyone else (Catalano, 2007). This collection offers resources to
support the expansion of services and systems’ responses that are critically
important to the prevention and continued decline of intimate partner
homicides.
Much is known about the risk factors that increase the danger that victim
will be killed by her intimate partner. The predominant risk factor for
intimate partner homicide is prior physical abuse, particularly physical
assaults that have recently escalated in frequency and severity (Block, 2003).
Other risk factors identified in the research include stalking, estrangement
(physical leaving, legal separation, etc.); strangulation (choking) during an
assault; threats to kill; prior use of or access to weapons, especially
firearms; forced sex; controlling, possessive, jealous behavior; drug and/or
alcohol abuse; and, to lesser degrees, the presence in the household of
children who are not the batterer’s biological offspring; and unemployment of
the batterer (Roehl, O’Sullivan, Webster, & Campbell, 2005 & Campbell et al., 2003a).
Sadly, leaving an abusive relationship doesn’t necessarily end the
violence, and therefore leaving isn’t always the safest choice for victims.
In fact, “the extant research literature shows that women experience an increased
risk of lethal violence when they leave intimate relationships with men”
(Websdale, 1999). It is essential that helping professionals become familiar
with lethality risk factors so that they can best minimize these risks and
support the informed choices of domestic violence survivors.
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"If I die, I want you to tell the world what happened to me. I
don't want other women to suffer as I have suffered. I want them to be
listened to." ~ Maria
Teresa Macias
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This collection provides:
- national and statewide homicide statistics that help
illustrate the scope of the problem;
- an overview of tools and strategies for assessing
danger or the risk of lethality in domestic violence cases;
- recommendations and approaches for utilizing the
fatality review process to prevent intimate partner homicide;
- materials describing various systems’ responses to
domestic violence and efforts to prevent homicide;
- resources to assist advocates in helping to frame the
issue through media response and community mobilization; and
- resources addressing the grief and trauma experienced
by loved ones of those whose lives are lost to domestic violence.
This resource was developed by VAWnet and the National
Resource Center
on Domestic Violence. Special thanks to the Battered Women's Justice Project, Washington State Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, Florida
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence for their
contributions. To recommend additional resources for this collection, please Contact Us.
The
Scope of the Problem: Intimate Partner Homicide Statistics
The available research shows that women are more likely to be killed by an
intimate partner (husband, boyfriend, same-sex partner, or ex) than by anyone
else (Catalano, 2007). Overall (from 1976-2005), about one third
of female murder victims were killed by an intimate partner (Catalano, 2007). In 2008, twelve (12) times as many females
were murdered by a male they knew than were killed by male strangers. For
victims who knew their offenders, 64% of female homicide victims were wives or
intimate acquaintances of their killers (VPC, 2010). Men can also be victims of intimate partner
homicide. In recent years, about 3% of male murder victims were killed by an
intimate (Catalano, 2007). There is reason to believe that the
motivation for these female perpetrated crimes may be self defense or
retaliation, as the majority of women who use violence against their male
partners are battered themselves (Das Dasgupta, 2001). For more information about battered
women who use violence, contact the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, a
partner of the Battered Women's
Justice Project, or see additional resources on VAWnet related to Women Who Use Force/Self Defense. Another helpful resource
is Domestic Violence
Turning Points, offering A Nonviolence Curriculum for Women who use both legal and
illegal violence against their partners.
Data on intimate partner homicide provides a glaring picture of the
magnitude and devastating toll that intimate partner violence can take.
Therefore, the available data can be a valuable tool to aid advocates in their
continuous efforts, including policy change, fundraising, and public education.
This section includes several reports and other website resources providing the
most current data and analyses available on the prevalence and incidence of
intimate partner violence, with special focus on homicides/femicides. The section
is broken down into three sub-sections: National, Specific
Populations, and State-Specific. For ideas about how advocates can
use homicide data in order to raise community awareness of domestic violence
and mobilize social change, see the section Using Fatality Review Reports
in Our Work.
National Homicide Data
Resources providing national data and analyses of intimate partner
homicide, including information on murder-suicide, are highlighted below.
- Homicide Trends In The
United States
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by James Alan Fox and Marianne W. Zawitz, Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS)
This webpage contains a series of charts that describe homicide patterns
and trends in the United States since 1976.
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- Surveillance for Violent
Deaths: National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 States, 2007 | PDF
(56 p.)
by Debra L. Karch, Linda L. Dahlberg, and Nimesh Patel for the
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC) (May 2010)
This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting
System (NVDRS) regarding violent deaths from 16 U.S. states for 2007.
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- Intimate Partner
Homicide
| PDF
by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) (November 2003)
This issue of the NIJ Journal focuses on the topic of intimate partner
homicide.
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- Intimate Partner
Violence in the United States | HTML
PDF
(46 p.)
by Shannan Catalano, Ph.D., Statistician for the U.S. Department of
Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (December 2007)
Includes statistical trends related to incidence and prevalence of
intimate partner violence in the US according to: victim characteristics,
offender characteristics, circumstances, injury and treatment, victim
assistance, and reporting to the police.
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- Criminal Victimization,
2009
| PDF
(16 p.)
by Michael Rand and Jennifer Truman for the Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS) (October 2010)
This report presents the annual estimates of rates and levels of violent
crime, property crime, and personal theft. It includes data on the
characteristics of victims of crime; estimates of intimate partner
violence; and use of firearms and other weapons during the crime.
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- Female Victims of
Violence
| PDF
(8 p.)
by Shannan Catalano, Ph.D., Erica Smith, Howard Snyder, Ph.D., and
Michael Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (September 2009)
This report provides the current findings on nonfatal and fatal violent
crimes committed against females.
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- When Men Murder Women:
An Analysis of 2008 Homicide Data | PDF (33
p.)
by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) (September 2010)
This report details national and state-by-state information on female
homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender.
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- American Roulette:
Murder-Suicide in the United States | PDF
(18 p.)
by the Violence Policy
Center (VPC) (April 2008)
This VPC study is the largest and most comprehensive analysis conducted on
murder-suicide in the U.S.
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- Murder-Suicide in
Families
| HTML
by National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
This webpage highlights research findings on murder-suicide in the family.
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- A Deadly Myth: Women,
Handguns, and Self-Defense | HTML
by Karen Brock for the Violence
Policy Center
(VPC) (January 2001)
Analyzing FBI data, this study reports that a woman is far more likely to
be the victim of a handgun homicide than to use a handgun in a justifiable
homicide.
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Homicide Data for Specific
Populations
The following list highlights available information on intimate partner
homicides among specific populations.
- Shattered Lives:
Homicides, Domestic Violence and Asian Families | PDF (86 p.)
by Chic Dabby, Hetana Patel and Grace Poore for the Asian &
Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / Asian & Pacific
Islander American Health Forum (February 2010)
This report analyzes 160 cases of domestic violence related homicides in
Asian families based on newspaper clippings and information from advocates
for a six-year period (from 2000 to 2005).
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- Immigrant & Refugee
Victims of Domestic Violence Homicide in Washington State | PDF (2 p.)
by the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review, Washington
State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV) (June 2011)
This fact sheet provides information on immigrant and refugee victims of
domestic violence that were killed by their abusers in Washington State
from 1997 through 2009.
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- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender and Queer Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence in the United
States in 2009
| PDF (104 p.)
by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (2010)
This annual report documents 6 murders related to LGBTQ domestic/intimate
partner violence, representing a 50% rise since 2007.
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- When Men Murder Women:
An Analysis of 2008 Homicide Data | PDF (33
p.)
by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) (September 2010)
This report details national and state-by-state information on female
homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and
includes a section specific to Black women.
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- Now That We Know:
Findings and Recommendations from the Washington State Domestic Violence
Fatality Review
| PDF
(100 p.)
by Jake Fawcett, Kelly Starr, and Ankita Patel for the Washington
State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV) (December 2008)
This report offers key data findings on domestic violence homicides in
Washington State, including data specific to women of color -- who have
been found to be at a 2.5 to 3.5 times greater risk for homicide than
white women.
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State-Specific Homicide Data
Resources in this section are offered as examples of how different states across
the country have collected and reported data on domestic violence related
homicides. This is not a comprehensive list of state reports, but rather a
sampling for your consideration and reference. Additional state reports are
available through the National Domestic Violence Fatality Initiative. Please
consult your domestic violence coalition for the most current information
available in your state. For a complete list of up-to-date contact information
for all domestic and sexual violence coalitions across the United
States and its Territories visit: http://www.vawnet.org/links/state-coalitions.php.
Another resource for assistance in finding state-specific statistics is the Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault Data Resource Center. Funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
the purpose of the Center is to provide information to researchers,
practitioners and members of the public interested in finding, using, or
understanding domestic and sexual violence and stalking data.
ALABAMA
- 2009 Domestic Violence
in Alabama
| PDF
(8 p.)
by the Statistical Analysis Center of the Alabama Criminal Justice
Information Center
This report provides data on domestic violence offenses in Alabama,
including homicides, for the calendar year of 2009.
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INDIANA
- 2010 Indiana
Domestic Violence Homicides | PDF (5 p.)
by the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (ICADV)
This document provides information on domestic violence related deaths in Indiana
for the year 2010.
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MARYLAND
- Maryland Network Against
Domestic Violence Annual Memorial Service | HTML
by the Maryland Network Against Domestic
Violence (MNADV) (February 2011)
This page provides information on individuals who died in Maryland
as a result of domestic violence between July 1, 2009 through June 30,
2010.
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MASSACHUSETTS
- Domestic Violence
Homicides in Massachusetts:
Tracking Analysis 2003-2010 | PDF (2 p.)
by Jane Doe, Inc.
This document provides information on domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts
from 2003 to 2010.
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MINNESOTA
- 2010 Femicide Report | PDF (31 p.)
by the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women (MCBW)
The Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women publishes The Femicide Report,
a report on women and children murdered in Minnesota, to educate the
public about the lethality of domestic violence and child abuse.
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NEW JERSEY
- Deaths associated with
intimate partner violence, New Jersey, 2003-2007: An Office of Injury
Surveillance and Prevention Brief | PDF (2 p.)
by the New Jersey Office of Injury Surveillance and Prevention and the
New Jersey Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board (May
11, 2009)
This report provides data about deaths associated with intimate partner
violence in New Jersey for the years 2003 to 2007.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Beyond Statistics:
Intimate Partner Homicides 2005-2007, The High Price of Domestic Violence
in New Hampshire
| PDF (6 p.)
by The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
and the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Governor’s
Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence
Using media reports, this document provides information about the intimate
partner related homicides that occurred between January 2005 and October
2007 in the state of New Hampshire.
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NORTH CAROLINA
- Domestic Violence
Homicides 2010
| HTML
by the North Carolina Coalition Against
Domestic Violence (NCCADV)
This page provides information on domestic violence homicides in North
Carolina for the year 2010.
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PENNSYLVANIA
- Domestic Violence
Fatalities in Pennsylvania – 2009 | PDF (20 p.)
by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (PCADV) (2010)
Using information from Pennsylvania
newspapers, this annual report has since 1998 conveyed the lethality of
domestic violence in the Commonwealth.
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WASHINGTON
- 2010 Domestic Violence
Fatalities in Washington State | PDF
(6 p.)
by The Washington State
Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV) (February 2011)
This document provides data on domestic violence fatalities in Washington
State for the year 2010.
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WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin Domestic
Violence Homicide Report, 2009 | PDF (48 p.)
by Jane Sadusky for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
(WCADV (September 2010)
This report details domestic violence-related homicides in Wisconsin for
the calendar year 2009.
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Safety Planning & Danger Assessment Tools
“Threats to kill are integral
parts of many abusive relationships, most of which do not end in homicide”
(Websdale, 1999, p. 22). However, women whose partners threatened them with
murder are 15 times more likely than other women to be killed (Campbell et al., 2003b). Helping survivors to assess both
the risks and protective factors present in their intimate relationships can
be a critial step in recognizing the potential for homicide.
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Considerations for Enhancing
Safety
While safety planning is related to determining the risk of danger or
lethality, the considerations are different. Safety planning is an interactive
process done with the victim to assess and re-assess her risks and needs, as
well as her strengths and strategies used to address those risks and needs.
- Assessing Social Risks
of Battered Women | PDF (9 p.)
by Radhia A. Jaaber and Shamita Das Dasgupta, Praxis International
Whether visible to outside observers or not, social risks are real and significant
to the individual battered woman.
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- Safety Planning | PDF
(12 p.)
by Jill Davies (Updated August 2009)
This paper discusses how to implement comprehensive safety planning for
battered women using a woman-defined model. Discusses batterer-generated
and life-generated risks, and the role of advocates in supporting safety
planning strategies.
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- Keeping Safe: A Workbook
for Developing Safety Plans | PDF (38
p.)
by Women In Transition, Inc.
This workbook is designed to help women focus on behaviors and activities
relative to their fundamental safety, helping to highlight the complex
network of needs and problems each woman may encounter, her survival
skills and strengths, and how she can or has already used them to
prioritize the difficult areas of her life.
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- Creating Sustainable
Safety for Battered Women | PDF (13 p.)
by Shamita Das Dasgupta by Praxis International
Whether we are assessing risks, advocating for an individual, making
policies, or evaluating programs, thinking critically and broadly about
women’s safety undoubtedly enhances the effectiveness of our work on
behalf of battered women.
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- Battered Women's
Protective Strategies | PDF
(14 p.)
by Sherry Hamby with contributions from Andrea Bible (July 2009)
This Applied Research paper adopts a holistic approach to understand
battered women's protective strategies, reviewing a wide range of
strategies used by women to cope with numerous threats posed by battering,
not just the threat of bodily harm.
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- When Battered Women
Stay... Advocacy Beyond Leaving | PDF
(19 p.)
by Jill Davies, Publication #20, Building Comprehensive Solutions to
Domestic Violence, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (June
2008)
This paper raises key issues, questions, and dilemmas regarding advocacy
with battered women who stay in their relationships. It discusses
limitations of safety strategies for leaving, and frames issues central to
the expansion of advocacy beyond leaving.
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- Advocacy Beyond Leaving:
Helping Battered Women in Contact with Current or Former Partners, A Guide
for Domestic Violence Advocates | PDF (36 p.)
by Jill Davies for Futures Without Violence (formerly the Futures
Without Violence)
Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the
Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims
are in contact with current or former partners.
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Tools & Strategies for
Assessing Danger or Risk of Lethality
While lethality assessment and risk assessment are overlapping concepts,
they do not measure the same thing. The main difference is whether a tool was
designed to measure 1) the risk of reoffense/reassault (the likelihood that
abuse will occur again, often measured after corrective action has been taken,
a.k.a, “recidivism”) or 2) the risk of homicide (the likelihood that a fatality
will result). After the general resources provided below, you will find
materials related to five leading assessment tools. Each tool includes a
notation about the field of intended use, the perspective being evaluated, and
an indication of whether the tool assesses reoffense/reassault or lethality
risk.
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The Empowerment Process Model illustrated here (Bennett
Cattaneo & Chapman, 2010) provides a helpful framework for engaging
in risk assessment that shifts the focus from prediction to management. Lauren
Bennett Cattaneo (2010) suggests that instead of asking, "What are the
chances violence will occur?" we should instead ask, "Under what
circumstances might violence occur, and how might we change them?"
Effective risk assessment practices need to pull prediction into management,
give victim voice, and integrate advocate expertise.
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- Risk Assessment and
Intimate Partner Violence: Bridging Research and Practice | PPT MP3
by Lauren Bennett Cattaneo for the Battered Women’s Justice Project
(May 18, 2011)
This webinar (slidewhow & audio recording) presents three areas of
research on risk assessment in intimate partner violence and describes
future directions for linking research and practice in a way that pulls
prediction into management, gives victim voice, and integrates advocate expertise.
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- Lethality Assessment
Tools: A Critical Analysis | PDF (9
p.)
by Neil Websdale (2000)
This document critiques several lethality assessment tools and examines
the link between these instruments and research on domestic homicide.
Discusses the antecedents of lethal violence and utility of dangeousness
assessment tools in promoting safety.
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- Overview of Domestic
Violence (DV) Risk Assessment Instruments (Frequently Asked Questions) | PDF
(6 p.)
by Kristin Bechtel and Bill Woodward, U.S. Department of Justice,
National Institute of Corrections (August 2008)
This paper describes several risk assessment instruments available to the
corrections community, and addresses frequently asked questions regarding
implementation and other considerations.
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- Inventory of Spousal
Violence Risk Assessment Tools Used in Canada | PDF
(26 p.)
by Allison Millar for Department of Justice Canada
This report provides descriptions and analyses of assessment tools,
investigative checklists, and protocols used by criminal justice personnel
in Canada to measure risk in domestic violence cases.
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- The Validity of Risk
Assessments for Intimate Partner violence: A Meta-Analysis | PDF (29 p.)
by R. Karl Hanson, Leslie Helmus, and Guy Bourgon, Public Safety
Canada (2007)
This meta-analysis reviews the predictive accuracy of different approaches
and tools that are used to assess the risk of recidivism for male spousal
assault offenders.
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- Intimate Partner
Violence Risk Assessment Validation Study: The RAVE Study - Summary and
Recommendations: Validation of Tools for Assessing Risk from Violent
Intimate Partners | PDF
(17 p.)
by Janice Roehl, Chris O’Sullivan, Daniel Webster, and Jacquelyn
Campbell, U.S. Department of Justice (Revised December 2005)
The central purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of several
different approaches to predicting risk of future harm or lethality in
domestic violence cases.
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- PROTECT: Identifying and
Protecting High Risk Victims of Gender Based Violence - an Overview | PDF (92 p.)
by Ute Rösemann, Branislava
Marvanová Vargová, and Regina Webhofer for WAVE - Women
Against Violence Europe (2010)
This report summarizes project PROTECT which aims at contributing to the
prevention and reduction of the most serious forms of gender-based
violence against girls, young women and their children, such as grievous
bodily harm, homicide and attempted homicide, including so-called honour
crimes and killings.
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- Assessing Risk To
Children From Batterers | PDF
(19 p.)
by Lundy Bancroft and Jay G. Silverman (2002)
Overview of potential sources of harm to children from contact with
batterers, recommendations for evaluating risk, and assessment guidelines
that professionals can apply in cases where a batterer admits to a history
of abusiveness.
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1. DANGER ASSESSMENT
Intended field: advocates/health professionals
Perspective: victim
Assesses: lethality risk
- Danger Assessment | HTML (1 p.)
by Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing
(2004)
The Danger Assessment (DA) was originally developed by Co-Investigator
Campbell (1986) with consultation and content validity support from
battered women, shelter workers, law enforcement officials, and other
clinical experts on battering.
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- Assessing Risk Factors
for Intimate Partner Homicide | PDF
(6 p.)
by Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Daniel Webster, Jane Koziol-McLain, Carolyn
Rebecca Block, Doris Campbell, Mary Ann Curry, Faye Gary, Judith
McFarlane, Carolyn Sachs, Phyllis Sharps, Yvonne Ulrich, and Susan A.
Wilt, National Institute of Justice [NIJ Journal - ISSUE NO. 250]
(November 2003)
The findings reported here indicate that the Danger Assessment tool can
assist in assessing battered women who may be at risk of being killed as
well as those who are not.
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- Keeping Women Alive -
Assessing the Danger | PDF (96 p.)
by Kathleen Cairns and Irene Hoffart for the Alberta Council of
Women’s Shelters (June 2009)
This report shares results of an action based research project on Danger
Assessment useage in nine Alberta shelters over a two year period.
Fourteen (14) practice-focused recommendations are provided in this
report.
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2. DVSI-R
Intended field: criminal justice
Perspective: offender
Assesses: reoffense/reassault
- Empirically Examining
the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: The Revised Domestic Violence
Screening Instrument (DVSI-R) | PDF (9 p.)
by Kirk R. Williams & Stephen R. Grant, Public Health Reports
[Volume 121, Issue 4] (July/August 2006)
This report shares findings that support the concurrent and predictive
validity of the DVSI-R and show that it is robust in its applicability.
The findings further show that incidents involving multiple victims are
highly associated with DVSI-R risk scores and recidivistic violence.
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- The Family Violence Risk
Assessment Project and its Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R) | PDF
(6 p.)
by the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch (2006)
This Sanctions Update focuses on the DVSI-R: what it is, how it is used in
the courts, how it benefits system players and victims, and what the next
steps are for refining it even further.
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- Validation Study of the
Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI) | PDF ( p.)
by John Hisashima, Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions
(January 2008)
This report contains analyses of the Domestic Violence Screening
Instrument (DVSI), indicating that the instrument is accurately
classifying offenders based on risk.
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3. MOSAIC THREAT ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS
Intended field: criminal justice
Perspective: victim
Assesses: lethality risk
- MOSAIC Threat Assessment
Systems
| HTML
by Gavin de Becker
MOSAIC is a risk assessment tool that helps the assessor weigh the present
situation in light of expert opinion and research, and instantly compare
the present situation to past cases where the outcomes are known.
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- Major Federal Research
Project Studies Domestic Violence Assessment | PDF
(2 p.)
by Mosaic Method
Describes findings from the U.S. DOJ’s “Intimate Partner Violence Risk
Assessment Validation,” specifically related to the MOSAIC threat
assessment.
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4. ODARA (Ontario Domestic
Assault Risk Assessment) & DVRAG (Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide)
Intended field: criminal justice & forensic clinicians
Perspective: offender
Assesses: reoffense/reassault
- The Ontario Domestic
Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) & Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal
Guide (DVRAG)
| PDF (3 p.)
from the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care<
These tools comprise a coherent actuarial system to assesses how likely a
man is to assault his partner again, and how his risk compares with that
of other abusers.
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5. SARA (Spousal Assault Risk Assessment) & B-SAFER
Intended field: criminal justice
Perspective: offender
Assesses: reoffense/reasasult
- Spousal Assault Risk
Assessment Guide: Assessment of the likelihood of domestic violence | PDF
(4 p.)
by P. Randall Kropp, Ph.D., Stephen D. Hart, Ph.D., Christopher D.
Webster, Ph.D., & Derek Eaves, M.B. (1999)
This brochure describes the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA)
and its ability to help determine the degree to which an individual poses
a domestic violence threat to his/her partner, children, another family
member, or another person involved.
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6. DASH (Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based
Violence) & RIC (Risk Identification Checklist)
Intended field: advocates/human service professionals
Perspective: victim
Assesses: lethality risk
- Domestic Abuse, Stalking
and Harassment and Honour Based Violence (DASH, 2009) Risk Identification
and Assessment and Management Model | PDF (8 p.)
by Laura Richards for Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse
(CAADA) (2009)
This document describes the DASH risk assessment tool that was designed
for practitioners who work with victims of domestic abuse in the UK in
order to help them identify those who are at high risk of harm.
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- CAADA Domestic Abuse,
Stalking and 'Honour'-based Violence (DASH) Risk Identification Checklist | HTML
by Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA) (2009)
This checklist is a consistent and simple to use tool for practitioners
who work with victims of domestic abuse in order to help them identify
those who are at high risk of harm and whose cases should be referred to a
Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) meeting in order to manage
the risk.
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High
Lethality Risk Factors: Firearms & Strangulation
A study of the Danger Assessment
tool revealed that women who were threatened or assaulted with a gun or other
weapon were twenty (20) times more likely than other women to be murdered (Campbell et al., 2003b). In an earlier study, Saltzman et
al. (1992) found that "Family and intimate assaults involving
firearms are twelve (12) times more likely to result in death than
non-firearm-related assaults".
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- The Facts on Guns and
Domestic Violence | PDF (2 p.)
by Futures Without Violence
This brief fact sheet provides statistics related to the lethal
combination of guns and domestic violence - injuring and killing women
every day in the United States.
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- Domestic Violence and
Firearms
| PDF
(17 p.)
by Legal Community Against Violence (2009)
This publication includes comprehensive background information, a summary
of relevant federal law, and a thorough description of state laws that
exceed the federal standard regarding domestic violence related firearms
prohibitions.
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- Domestic Violence and
Firearms: An Advocates Guide | PDF (11 p.)
by The Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Councils, Firearms and
Domestic Violence Project (2008)
This guide provides advocates with an overview of the increased risk of
lethality when firearms are present in cases of domestic violence, a
discussion of both federal and Illinois state laws related to firearm
possession, and the role of the advocate in addressing firearms when
working with survivors of domestic violence.
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- Domestic Violence and
Firearms: A Deadly Combination | PDF (7 p.)
by John Wilkinson and Toolsi Gowin Meisner, Strategies Issue #3,
Aequitas (March 2011)
This guide for prosecutors offers recommendations for the effective
prosecution of cases of domestic violence involving firearms, with the
goal of disarming dangerous individuals and holding violent offenders
accountable, thereby greatly enhancing victim safety.
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- Firearms and Domestic
Violence: A Primer for Judges | PDF (12 p.)
by Darren Mitchell and Susan B. Carbon, Court Review, US Department of
Justice (Summer 2002)
This article provides an overview of related research, judicial response,
applicable laws, and effective judicial practice in response to the deadly
combination of firearms and domestic violence.
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- Enforcing Domestic
Violence Firearm Prohibitions: A Report on Promising Practices | PDF (116 p.)
by Andrew R. Klein for the Office on Violence Against Women, National
Center on Full Faith and Credit (September 2006)
This report highlights promising practices that represent innovative
approaches to enforcing domestic violence firearm prohibitions. It
provides brief descriptions of programs that are located primarily in law
enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices, courts, and probation
departments.
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- Model Law Enforcement
Policy: Serving and Enforcing Protection Orders & Seizing Firearms in
Domestic Violence Cases | PDF (26 p.)
by Mary Malefyt Seighman and David R. Thomas for the National Center
on Full Faith and Credit (October 2005)
The purpose of the Model Law Enforcement Policy is to provide policies and
standard operating procedures for four specific areas that may be
encountered by a law enforcement agency. This resource is specific to the
seizure of firearms from persons who are prohibited from possessing
firearms pursuant to a protection order.
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- A Deadly Myth: Women,
Handguns, and Self-Defense | HTML
by Karen Brock for the Violence
Policy Center
(VPC) (January 2001)
Analyzing FBI data, this study reports that a woman is far more likely to
be the victim of a handgun homicide than to use a handgun in a justifiable
homicide.
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“Strangulation is one of the
most lethal forms of violence used by men against their female intimate
partners, and is a significant risk factor for attempted or completed
homicide of women by their male intimates. In a study of 57 women who were
killed by a male partner during 1995-1996 in Chicago, 53% of the victims had
experienced strangulation in the preceding year and 18% of the victims had
been killed by strangulation" (Block et al., 2000).
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The Family
Justice Center Alliance provides training on the handling of strangulation cases for every
domestic violence and sexual assault professional, and offer a training DVD
entitled Strangulation: What We Have Learned that features national
experts on the subject of strangulation from detection through prosecution of
strangulation cases.
Facts About Intimate Partner Strangulation | PDF ( p.)
by the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women (2009)
This brief fact sheet includes basic information prepared by the Minnesota
Coalition for Battered Women, a state that pioneered the prosecution of felony
strangulation cases.
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- Strangulation Assaults
in Domestic Violence Cases | PDF (2 p.)
by Ortner-Unity, The Center on Family Violence of Penn Social Policy
& Practice (2008)
This comprehensive fact sheet includes basic information on strangulation
in domestic violence cases, including many cited research studies
substantiating the role of strangulation as a risk factor for homicide in
intimate partner violence.
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- OPDV Bulletin:
Strangulation in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault | HTML
by Gael Strack and George McClane for the New York State Office for the
Prevention of Domestic Violence
This article presents an overview of the risks posed by strangulation
attempts in domestic violence cases, and is adapted from a portion of a
presentation from the three-day conference, "Detection and
Prosecution of Strangulation in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Cases.”
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- How to Improve Your
Investigation and Prosecution of Strangulation Cases | PDF (18 p.)
by Gael B. Strack for the National Family Justice Center Alliance
(Updated September 2007)
This paper highlights results of a study examining 300 strangulation
cases, 89% of which involved domestic violence. It provides an overview of
the issue from a medical perspective, and then offers practical tips for
law enforcement officers and prosecutors in effectively addressing these
cases.
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- Strangulation Matrix | PDF (31 p.)
by the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse & The
Battered Women’s Justice Project (Updated 2008)
This chart is a compilation of the strangulation laws in the United
States.
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- The Impact of
Minnesota's Felony Strangulation Law | PDF (38 p.)
by Heather Wolfgram, WATCH (January 2007)
This groundbreaking study provides key insights into the implementation
and outcomes of Minnesota’s felony strangulation law, including discussion
of obstacles and recommendations for changes in the handling of
strangulation cases.
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Fatality Review
“The fatality review process is
a critical component in helping communities understand the events that may
have led to a domestic violence homicide, and ultimately to determine how to
prevent such homicides” (FCADV, 2009).
“Like the reviews conducted after an airplane crash, a fatality review
helps determine what went wrong and what could have been done differently to
prevent the tragedy” (Websdale,
2003).
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This section provides information on fatality reviews, a tool increasingly
being used by advocates and practitioners to examine the barriers to safety,
justice, and self determination that victims face, identify the gaps in our
community response to domestic violence, and advocate for change so that
intimate partner homicide can ultimately be prevented. This section is divided
into three sub-sections: Approaches and Recommendations for Fatality Review,
Sample Fatality Review Reports, and Using Fatality Review Reports in
Our Work. For additional information and technical assistance on fatality
review, please visit the website of the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative
(NDVFRI). The mission of NDVFRI is “to provide technical assistance for the
reviewing of domestic violence related deaths with the underlying objectives of
preventing them in the future, preserving the safety of battered women, and
holding accountable both the perpetrators of domestic violence and the multiple
agencies and organizations that come into contact with the parties.” This
website provides state-by-state information, reports, and a variety of other
publications to support initiatives related to fatality review.
Approaches and Recommendations for Fatality Review
There are a variety of fatality review models or processes currently in
place across the country. Despite the variations, however, “there is very
little research strongly supporting one approach over another in terms of which
review is most effective or comprehensive” (Chard-Wierschem & Mackey, 2006).
- Reviewing Domestic
Violence Deaths
| PDF
(6 p.)
by Neil Websdale for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) (November
2003)
This documents provides an overview of fatality review, highlighting how
this tool may help reduce intimate partner homicide.
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- Domestic Fatality Review
Boards
| HTML
by Stop Violence Against Women/The Advocates for Human Rights
(November 2006)
This brief document provides information on starting a fatality review
process, case review process, and reporting.
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- Domestic Violence
Serious Incident/Fatality Reviews in New York State | PDF (20 p.)
by Deborah J. Chard-Wierschem, PhD and Melissa I. Mackey, MA for the New
York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Bureau of Justice
Research and Innovation (October 2006)
This report examines the extent to which local level domestic violence
serious incident and fatality reviews exist in New York State. Findings from
this research provide a basis from which policy makers can explore new
review initiatives.
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- The Faces of Fatality:
Overview, Findings and Recommendations of the Florida Attorney General’s
Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team | PDF (24 p.)
by Florida’s Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team of the
Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Florida
Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) (January 2011)
This document presents a project report and recommendations from the
Florida’s statewide fatality review team.
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- Up to Us: Lessons
learned and goals for change after thirteen years of the Washington State
Domestic Violence Fatality Review | PDF
(52 p.)
by Jake Fawcett for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (December 2010)
This sixth and final biennial report draws on the lessons learned by the
Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) after more than
a decade of analysis and community conversation, and it sets out eleven
goals for change.
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- Homicide at Home | PDF (147 p.)
by Margaret Hobart for The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (1998)
This document describes the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality
Review model and the rationale behind it.
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- Advocates and Fatality
Reviews
| PDF (22 p.)
by Margaret Hobart for The Washington
State Coalition Against
Domestic Violence (WSCADV) (June 2004)
This document describes the “System Analysis” approach. “This approach
avoids blaming individuals and instead focuses on the analysis of systems
and institutions with the goal of creating lasting changes.”
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- Suggested Guidelines for
Advocates Participating in Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews | PDF (22 p.)
by Margaret Hobart for The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (March 2005)
This document provides several basic guidelines for advocate participation
in fatality reviews.
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- Elder Abuse Fatality
Review Teams: A Replication Manual | PDF (201 p.)
by Lori A. Stiegel, American Bar Association (2005)
This manual emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary Elder Abuse
Fatality Review Team (EA-FRT), discusses various issues and challenges
that EA-FRT may face, and presents suggestions for addressing these
challenges.
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- Domestic Violence
Fatality Review in Indian Country | PDF (12 p.)
by Matthew Dale for the Fatality Review Bulletin / National Domestic
Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) (Spring 2010)
This article, which begins on page 8 of the NDVFRI’s Fatality Review
Bulletin, provides information on conducting fatality reviews with
American Indian tribes in Montana.
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- Telling Amy’s Story | Video
by Penn State Public Broadcasting (November 2010)
This is the 15 minute version of a full-length film that follows the
timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred in central
Pennsylvania on November 8, 2001. This story illustrates the importance of
the fatality review process in the prevention of intimate partner
homicide.
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Sample Fatality Review Reports
This section provides a variety of sample fatality reports from different
states across the country. This list is provided as a starting point and is not
comprehensive or exhaustive. Additional reports can be found through the
website of the National
Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI).
ARIZONA
- Arizona Domestic
Violence Fatality Report 2010 | PDF (30 p.)
by the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence (AZCADV)
This report examines the fatalities that occurred in Arizona from January
1 – December 31, 2010, including intimate partner homicides, homicides
perpetrated by family members, suicides related to incidents of domestic
violence, and perpetrators killed by law enforcement when they respond to
a domestic violence call.
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FLORIDA
- The Faces of Fatality:
Overview, Findings and Recommendations of the Florida Attorney General’s
Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team | PDF (24 p.)
by Florida’s Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team of the
Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Florida
Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) (January 2011)
This document presents a project report and recommendations from the
Florida’s statewide fatality review team.
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GEORGIA
- 2010 Georgia Domestic
Violence Fatality Review Annual Report | PDF (48 p.)
by The Georgia Commission on Family Violence (GCFV) and the Georgia
Coalition Against Domestic Violence (GCADV) (2011)
This report provides data findings and recommendations from community
reviews of domestic violence homicides in Georgia.
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LOUISIANA
- The Killing Must Stop:
Death at the Hands of the Person You Love - Findings and Recommendations
of the Louisiana Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project | PDF
(40 p.)
by Kami E. Geoffray for the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (LCADV) (June 2010)
This report presents the findings from a Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Project (DVFR) that has been underway since 2005 in the state of
Louisiana.
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MARYLAND
- Taking a Closer Look:
Domestic Violence Fatality Review Statewide Report | PDF (44 p.)
by Fatima N. Burns, edited by Michaele Cohen, Karen Hartz, and Dave
Sargent for the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV) (2009)
This document is Maryland's first statewide report on domestic violence
fatality review.
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WASHINGTON STATE
- Up to Us: Lessons
learned and goals for change after thirteen years of the Washington State
Domestic Violence Fatality Review | PDF
(52 p.)
by Jake Fawcett for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (December 2010)
This sixth and final biennial report draws on the lessons learned by the
Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) after more than
a decade of analysis and community conversation, and it sets out eleven
goals for change.
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Using Fatality Review Reports
in Our Work
Materials in this section provide information about creative ways in which
advocates can effectively use fatality review reports in order to raise community
awareness of domestic violence and mobilize social change.
- Fatality Review Reports:
Innovative Advocates Use the Reports | PDF (5 p.)
by Leigh Hofheimer for The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (July 2008)
This document provides practical examples of how advocates have used
fatality review reports to raise awareness of domestic violence and
mobilize change in their communities.
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- Webinar - Now That We
Know: How to Use the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report to Mobilize
Change
| Video
by The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV)
(February 2009)
This is a 2-hour webinar presenting the findings and recommendations from
the 2008 report “Now That We Know” by the Washington State Domestic
Violence Fatality Review.
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- Up to Us: Lessons
learned and goals for change after thirteen years of the Washington State
Domestic Violence Fatality Review | PDF
(52 p.)
by Jake Fawcett for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (December 2010)
This sixth and final biennial report draws on the lessons learned by the
Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) after more than
a decade of analysis and community conversation, and it sets out eleven
goals for change.
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Systems Response & Opportunities for Prevention |
“The depiction of intimate
partner murder as a shocking and unexpected family tragedy overlooks the preventable
nature of many of these deaths and absolves the community of its
responsibility for developing ways to better intervene in potentially violent
and lethal relationships” (Fukuroda, 2005).
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Coordinated Community
Response
A coordinated community response involves police, prosecutors, probation
officers, battered women's advocates, counselors, and judges in developing and
implementing polices and procedures that improve interagency coordination and
lead to more uniform responses to domestic violence cases. * For more
information, see VAWnet's resources on Coordinated Community Response.
The Murder at Home Project is a groundbreaking effort of the California
Women's Law Center
to transform criminal justice, community and media responses to intimate murder
and intimate violence to ensure that these crimes are taken seriously and
addressed appropriately. Their report below is one resource that addresses a
broad community-level response to domestic violence homicide.
- Murder at Home: An
Examination of Legal and Community Responses to Intimate Femicide in
California
| PDF (335 p.)
by Marci L. Fukuroda for the California Women’s Law Center (October
2005)
This report is a comprehensive assessment of how different systems work
together, and separately, to address domestic violence and domestic
violence murder in California.
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- Domestic Violence Safety
& Accountability Audit | PDF (3 p.)
by Praxis International
The Safety Audit is tool used by interdisciplinary groups and domestic
violence advocacy organizations to further their common goals of enhancing
safety and ensuring accountability when intervening in cases involving
intimate partner violence.
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- How Can Practitioners
Help an Abused Woman Lower Her Risk of Death? | PDF
(4 p.)
by Carolyn Rebecca Block for the National Institute of Justice (2003)
This article presents key findings from the Chicago Women’s Health Study
about domestic violence, its effects, and women's responses to violence.
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- Telling Amy’s Story | Video
by Penn State Public Broadcasting (November 2010)
This is the 15 minute version of a full-length film that follows the
timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred in central
Pennsylvania on November 8, 2001. This story illustrates the importance of
the fatality review process in the prevention of intimate partner
homicide.
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Health Care
* See the related Special Collections: Domestic Violence and Health Care & Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence: Understanding the
Intersections
- The National Consensus
Guidelines on Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence
Victimization in Health Care Settings, Second Edition | PDF (98 p.)
by The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence of Futures
Without Violence (Revised February 2004)
The guidelines are designed to assist health care providers from multiple
settings and in various professional disciplines in addressing domestic
violence victimization, including assessment, documentation, intervention
and referral information.
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- Domestic Violence and
Health Care Protocols | PDF (1 p.)
from Futures Without Violence
These selected model protocols from various health care settings across
the US provide a blueprint for responding effectively and efficiently to
patients experiencing domestic violence.
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- Intimate Partner
Violence and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments for Use
in Healthcare Settings, Version 1.0 | PDF (114 p.)
by Kathleen C. Basile, Marci Hertz, and Sudie Black, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (2007)
This compilation provides practitioners and clinicians with an inventory
of existing assessment tools for determining intimate partner violence
and/or sexual violence victimization in clinical/healthcare settings.
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- Intimate Partner
Violence: Development of a Brief Risk Assessment for the Emergency
Department
| PDF (9 p.)
by Carolyn Snider, Daniel Webster, Chris S. O’Sullivan, and Jacquelyn
Campbell, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine [Vol. 16, No. 11]
(November 2009)
The objective of this study was to use data from a larger study of
domestic violence risk assessment methods to develop a brief assessment
for acute care settings to identify victims at highest risk for suffering
severe injury or potentially lethal assault by an intimate partner or
former partner.
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First Responders
“It is often difficult to know
for sure if cases of intimate killing are preceded by domestic violence. At
times police do not log their calls to domestic-violence incidents. Recent
research suggests that roughly half of intimate-partner violence is reported
to the police" (Websdale, 1999). It is critically important that
first responders accurately record the details of incidents related to
domestic violence so that future threats can be identified and addressed.
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- Lethality Assessment
Program Maryland Model For First Responders: Learning to read the danger
signs
| PDF (19 p.)
by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (2005)
The LAP is a two-pronged intervention process that features a
research-based lethality screening tool and an accompanying protocol
referral that provides direction for officers to initiate appropriate
action based on the results of the screening process.
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- Working Effectively with
the Police: A Guide for Battered Women’s Advocates | PDF (20 p.)
by Jane Sadusky for the Battered Women’s Justice Project (Revised
August 2001)
This article highlights information advocates need in order to work
collaboratively and effectively with police officers and other law
enforcement personnel. The author discusses the changes police officers
have made regarding when and how they arrest, investigate, write reports,
and how they work with and support prosecutors and victim advocates.
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- Community Policing and
Domestic Violence: Five Promising Practices | PDF (125 p.)
by Jane Sadusky for the Battered Women’s Justice Project (October
2003)
This document provides a discussion of how community policing principles
might intersect with the core principles of domestic violence organizing:
victim safety, offender accountability, and community change.
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- Guidelines for the Role
of EMS Personnel in Domestic Violence | PDF
(2 p.)
by the American College of Emergency Physicians (March 2000)
This statement provides guidelines for EMS personnel around the
recognition, victim care, scene safety, documentation, and reporting of
cases that are suspected to involve domestic violence.
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- Improving EMS Response
to Domestic Violence | PDF (38 p.)
by Patricia E. Ousley for Maine.gov (October 2001)
This PowerPoint presentation describes how EMS responders to domestic
violence can achieve: increased sensitivity and understanding of domestic
violence; more referrals to domestic violence projects; and quality
information and documentation for the criminal justice system.
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- First Response to
Victims of Crime: A Guidebook for Law Enforcement Officers | PDF (97 p.)
by Timothy O. Woods of the National Sheriffs’ Association for the
Office for Victims of Crime (April 2008)
This guide book offers user-friendly information for law enforcement on
how to respond to a wide range of victims. It attempts to highlight the
most salient issues involved for victims of certain crimes and for certain
populations of victims.
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- A Balanced
Collaboration: Vermont's Protocol for Law Enforcement Response to Children | PDF (16 p.)
by Jane M. Sadusky for the The Battered Women’s Justice Project (June
2004)
This paper provides a starting point for other communities to explore
their own response to children at domestic violence incidents, as well as
an approach that can be used to examine other aspects of intervention.
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- Victims with
Disabilities: Collaborative Multidisciplinary First Response, Techniques
for First Responders Called to Help Crime Victims who Have Disabilities | PDF (70 p.)
by the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, Office
of Justice Programs (2009)
This trainer’s guide is designed to demonstrate effective techniques for
first responders called to help crime victims who have disabilities that
affect the victim’s intellectual and communication abilities.
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Workplace
For more information and resources about the role of the workplace in
responding to domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence and stalking
visit The Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A
National Resource Center.
Telling Amy’s Story is
a film that follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred
on November 8, 2001. This story illustrates the important role that employers
and coworkers can play in promoting safety for victims of domestic violence.
Trends in Workplace Homicides in the U.S., 1993–2002: A Decade of
Decline | PDF (10 p.)
by Scott A. Hendricks, E. Lynn Jenkins, and Kristi R. Anderson for the
American Journal of Industrial Medicine (2007)
This study found that type IV workplace homicides -- that is, those involving a
personal relationship between the worker and the offender -- had actually
declined significantly less than overall workplace homicides and declined the
least of the four types.
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- Occupational injuries, illnesses,
and fatalities among women | PDF
(31 p.)
by Anne B. Hoskins for the Monthly Labor Review (October 2005)
Findings indicate that homicide was the leading source of fatal workplace
injuries for women, and that female murder victims were much more likely
to have been killed by a family member than were male victims.
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- Domestic Violence and
Occupational Homicides | PDF (20 p.)
by Terry Bunn, Travis Fritsch, and Sergey Tarima for the Kentucky
Injury Prevention and Research Center (August 2007)
This presentation describes the results of a CDC-funded project (1999-2005)
to quantify the magnitude of IPV in females in Kentucky, characterize its
nature, and measure health and mental health outcome.
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- Model Workplace Policy
On Employer Responses to Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Dating
Violence and Stalking | HTML
PDF (5 p.)
by The Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National
Resource Center (2009)
This model policy outlines guidelines for workplace responses to
victims/survivors of violence and perpetrators of violence. An employer
can adopt a workplace policy as part of its commitment to a healthy, safe
organizational climate and to the prevention and reduction of the
incidence and effects of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence,
and stalking.
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- Safety and Security
Concerns
| PDF (2 p.)
by The Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National
Resource Center
(2009)
There are some smart, strategic solutions to the risks of domestic and
sexual violence at work. This page offers four sections detailing ideas
for strengthening an employer’s overall workplace violence prevention
procedures to deal with domestic and sexual violence threats.
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Legal/Criminal Justice
For more information about promising practices of the criminal and civil
justice systems in addressing domestic violence, please visit The Battered Women's Justice
Project, which offers training, technical assistance, and consultation.
Their National
Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith and Credit provides technical
assistance on all issues related to the issuance and enforcement of protection
orders across jurisdictional boundaries.
- Effective Interventions
in Domestic Violence Cases: Context is Everything | PDF (5 p.)
by Loretta Frederick for The Battered Women’s Justice Project (May
2001)
In order to ensure that criminal justice system interventions are
effective in holding offenders accountable and protecting victims from
harm, the context in which each act of domestic violence occurs must be
understood.
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- Civil Protective Orders
Effective in Stopping or Reducing Partner Violence: Challenges remain in
rural areas with access and enforcement | PDF (6 p.)
by TK Logan and Robert Walker for The Carsey institute, University of
New Hampshire (Spring 2011)
The results of this study show clearly that civil protective orders are an
effective intervention in addressing partner violence. For approximately
half the women, all it took to stop the violence was a protective order.
For the other half, the violence and abuse was significantly reduced.
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- The Kentucky Civil
Protective Order Study: A Rural and Urban Multiple Perspective Study of
Protective Order Violation Consequences, Responses, & Costs | PDF
(183 p.)
by TK Logan, Robert Walker, William Hoyt, and Teri Faragher for the
U.S. Department of Justice (September 2009)
This study addresses several gaps in the research literature on civil
protective orders by examining protective order effectiveness,
enforcement, and cost effectiveness.
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- Model Law Enforcement
Policy: Serving and Enforcing Protection Orders & Seizing Firearms in
Domestic Violence Cases | PDF (26 p.)
by Mary Malefyt Seighman and David R. Thomas for the National Center
on Full Faith and Credit (October 2005)
The purpose of the Model Law Enforcement Policy is to provide policies and
standard operating procedures for four specific areas that may be
encountered by a law enforcement agency. This resource is specific to the
seizure of firearms from persons who are prohibited from possessing
firearms pursuant to a protection order.
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- Domestic Violence and
Probation
| PDF (27 p.)
by Fernando Mederos for the The Battered Women’s Justice Project
This article offers specialized management techniques that probation
officers can use to monitor batterers and intervene in domestic violence
cases more effectively. The author offers suggestions on how to manage
offenders on probation, respond to common excuses, and handle those
offenders least likely to be held accountable.
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Media & Community Response
By providing accurate coverage of
intimate partner homicides and avoiding sources, questions and language that
perpetuate myths, the media can play an important role in helping the
community understand “how domestic violence can go unchecked to the point
of murder” (Starr, 2008, p. 1). Because the public gets the majority
of its information about the world from the media, it is crucial that
advocates work with the media to reach their goal of educating the public
about domestic violence (Cuscino
& Shea, 1999).
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- Covering Domestic
Violence: A Guide for Journalists and Other Media Professionals | PDF
(31 p.)
by Kelly Starr for The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence (WSCADV) (January 2008)
This guide is designed to assist journalists in accurately covering
domestic violence homicides and other related stories.
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- Handbook for Journalists | PDF
by the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV)
The goal of this handbook is for reporters to see a murder or other crime
involving intimate partners through the lens of domestic violence.
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- Media Outreach Made
Easy: An Advocate's Guide to Working With the Press | PDF
(24 p.)
by Vicki Cuscino and Pam Shea (1999)
This document provides basic information on the many ways to use the media
to disseminate messages about domestic violence to the American public. A
set of sample media materials is included.
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- Domestic Violence
Awareness: Action for Social Change - Part II: Organizing and
Communications
| PDF
(113 p.)
by the Domestic
Violence Awareness Project of the National Resource Center on Domestic
Violence (NRCDV) (2009)
This second installment of the Action for Social Change manual intends to
generate critical thinking and enhance dialogue regarding community
organizing and partnerships, communications and engaging the media.
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- Instigate! An Online
Toolkit for Community Mobilization | HTML
by Transforming Communities: Technical Assistance, Training &
Resource Center (TC-TAT) (2001)
Provides tips, tools and exercises to guide the development of a Community
Action Team in your neighborhood, city, faith-based group, school or place
of employment. Designed primarily for use by domestic violence and public
health organizations.
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Grief & Trauma
"Children are present and
witness the murder of victims in 25% of femicide" (Doyne,
Bowermaster, & Meloy, 1999).
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In the event of intimate partner homicide or homicide/suicide, it is
inevitable that the loved ones of both the victim and the perpetrator will
experience intense and complex feelings of grief and loss. It is critical that
domestic violence advocates recognize the importance of reaching out to
families of homicide victims to offer support and/or provide referrals to
appropriate services. Children of homicide victims may experience a variety of
complex and often conflicting emotions when it comes to the murder of their
parent and their relationship with the perpetrator. It is important to provide
a sense of security and consistency to children who experience such trauma, and
to offer long-term support and advocacy on their behalf.
For additional resources on grief and loss, please visit the National
Alliance for Grieving Children, The Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families, GriefNet.org, or Caring
Connections, a project of the National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization.
- Guide to Survival for
Family and Friends of Homicide Victims | PDF
(5 p.)
by the Montana Department of Justice
This resource provides an overview of the most common feelings of grief
and offers tips for coping with the reactions of others, coping with
holidays, and coping with the criminal justice system.
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- When an
Abuser/Perpetrator Dies | HTML
by National Resource
Center on Domestic Violence
(2003)
Information about feelings and issues that may arise when an abuser or
perpetrator dies. A struggle anyone may face is how to make sense or
meaning of the death of a person you knew, cared about, or even loved.
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- Young Children and Grief | HTML
by The Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and
Families
This resource describes common aspects of the grieving and mourning
process for young children, and common feelings that a young child may
experience as part of that process.
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- How to Help a Grieving
Child
| HTML
by The Dougy Center:
The National Center
for Grieving Children and Families
This resource describes lessons from the book 35 Ways to Help a Grieving
Child.
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