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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.

This page provides recent information and graphics on individuals who died in Maryland as a result of domestic violence.

This document provides information on domestic violence related deaths in Indiana for the year 2012. Available information includes county and date of death, as well as name, age and gender of the victim.

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).

The goal of the report is to generate greater understanding of elder domestic violence homicides and how to prevent future occurrences. ñUntil there is greater understanding of the dynamics of these homicides, our governmental and social service systems will continue to miss opportunities for intervention and prevention.î

*See also: Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams: A Replication Manual [PDF] by Lori A. Stiegel, J.D., American Bar Association Commission on Law & Aging (2005)

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.

This NIJ webpage highlights research findings on murder-suicide in the family.

This annual report is released to coincide with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the Federal Bureau of InvestigationÍs unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report. The latest report offers information for 2011, the most recent year for which data is available.

Presents the annual estimates of rates and levels of violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), property crime (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft), and personal theft (pocket picking and purse snatching). This report describes the year-to-year change from 2008 and trends for the 10-year period from 2000 through 2009. The National Criminal Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects information on nonfatal crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S.

This issue of the NIJ Journal focuses on the topic of intimate partner homicide.

From 1980 to 2008, nearly 1 out of 5 murder victims were killed by an intimate, and 2 out of 5 female murder victims were killed by an intimate.

This Online Guide is a reissue of the 2000 publication, The Domestic Violence Handbook for Journalists, and provides resources and information to reporters who cover domestic violence homicides.

This guide is designed to assist journalists in accurately covering domestic violence homicides and other related stories.

This article offers specialized management techniques that probation officers can use to monitor batterers and intervene in domestic violence cases more effectively.

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.

Excerpt: The criminal justice system is, by design and necessity, incident-focused. For example, guilt or innocence is usually determined relative to a single alleged act. However, as in the case of the use of violence to defend oneself, the context in which the violence is used may be quite relevant to the issue of criminal culpability. Furthermore, for purposes of bail or sentencing hearings the legal system must be able to distinguish among defendants in order to tailor its responses to their acts and to ensure that the systemÍs handling of cases is effective.

This study addresses several gaps in the research literature on civil protective orders by examining protective order effectiveness, enforcement, and cost effectiveness.

This brief examines urban and rural differences in the community context of partner violence and the effectiveness of protective orders. The study uses data from an urban area and a rural area in Central Appalachia in Kentucky.

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.

This model policy outlines guidelines for workplace responses to victims/survivors of violence and perpetrators of violence.

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.

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.

As part of CDC's DELTA program, Wisconsin developed this five-year strategic plan to using a public health approach to benefit the largest group possible; it builds the capacity of individuals, organizations, and systems to more effectively identify, implement, and evaluate strategies that can prevent first-time perpetration.

This statewide plan was based on a systematic 10-step planning process called “Getting to Outcomes.” The goal was to create and implement evidence-based strategies that prevent first-time perpetration of intimate partner violence.

As part of CDC’s DELTA program, the Rhode Island State Steering Committee developed this domestic violence primary prevention plan as the first step in a long-term process to alter cultural norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support domestic violence. The plan identifies evidence-informed prevention strategies targeting men and teens, as well as several ways to improve community-based organizations' and community members' ability to use and evaluate prevention strategies.