Homicide / Lethality Content Topic Results

In fiscal year 2013, 58 domestic violence homicide incidents took the lives of 80 individuals in Illinois. This report summarizes data and lessons learned from these incidents where a domestic violence situation became fatal.

The revised Danger Assessment (DA-I) is a culturally competent adaptation for use with immigrant women and is intended to predict reassault in abusive relationships.

Jessica Lenahan’s three daughters were kidnapped and killed by her estranged husband due to the lack of actions taken by local law enforcement. She took her case before the U.S. Supreme Court and then before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. This webpage includes the amicus briefs regarding her case, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decision, and the press releases regarding this decision.

Whether visible to outside observers or not, social risks are real and significant to the individual battered woman.

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

This library compiles resources for promoting safer families and safer communities. Included are webinars, legal and policy analyses, promising practices and policies, research, and more helpful tools for law enforcement officers and community members.

The MMIW Toolkit for Understanding and Responding to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women for Families and Communities from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center is designed to assist families, communities, and advocacy organizations in understanding and responding to a case of a missing or murdered Native woman.

Describes findings from the U.S. DOJ’s “Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Validation,” specifically related to the MOSAIC threat assessment.

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.

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

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.

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.