Homicide / Lethality Content Topic Results
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January 2007
Danger Assessment-Revised: For Use in Abusive Female Same-Sex Relationships (DA-R)
Publisher(s):The revised Danger Assessment (DA-R) is intended to predict reassault, not lethality, in abusive female same-sex relationships.
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January 2007
The Impact of Minnesota's Felony Strangulation Law
Publisher(s):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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January 2007
Trends in Workplace Homicides in the U.S., 1993-2002: A Decade of Decline
Publisher(s):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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January 2007
Coping with Grief at the Holidays
Publisher(s):This document provides suggestions to help families cope with grief during the holiday season.
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November 2006
Domestic Fatality Review Boards
Publisher(s):This brief document provides information on starting a fatality review process, case review process, and reporting.
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October 2006
Domestic Violence Serious Incident/Fatality Reviews in New York State
Publisher(s):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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September 2006
Enforcing Domestic Violence Firearm Prohibitions: A Report on Promising Practices
Publisher(s):This report highlights promising practices that represent innovative approaches to enforcing domestic violence firearm prohibitions.
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July 2006
Empirically Examining the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: The Revised Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R)
Publisher(s):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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January 2006
The Family Violence Risk Assessment Project and its Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R)
Publisher(s):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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December 2005
Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Validation Study: The RAVE Study - Summary and Recommendations: Validation of Tools for Assessing Risk from Violent Intimate Partners
Publisher(s):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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October 2005
Occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities among women
Publisher(s):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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October 2005
Murder at Home: An Examination of Legal and Community Responses to Intimate Femicide in California
Publisher(s):This report is a comprehensive assessment of how different systems work together, and separately, to address domestic violence and domestic violence murder in California.