Homicide / Lethality Content Topic Results
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October 2015
American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States, Fifth Edition
Publisher(s):This is the fifth edition of the VPC’s American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. The study analyzes news reports of murder-suicides for the six-month period January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014. To the VPC’s knowledge, it is the largest and most comprehensive analysis available on murder-suicide in the United States.
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October 2015
Not One More: A Report of Domestic Violence Homicides in Massachusetts from 2003 to 2012
Publisher(s): This report studies domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts during a ten-year period.
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September 2015
Research Designs in the Real World: Testing the Effectiveness of an IPV Intervention
Publisher(s):This article describes a study of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), which is a partnership between law enforcement agencies and domestic violence service providers developed by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence.
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September 2015
Accounting for Risk and Danger Practice Checklists: Coordinating Risk Assessment in Domestic Violence Cases
Publisher(s):These checklists are intended to help jurisdictions ensure that their criminal justice responses identify and address potential risks to victims, based on sound research on risk factors associated with IPV.
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May 2015
LAP Info Packet and FAQ
Publisher(s):The LAP is a multi-pronged intervention that consists of a standardized, evidence-based lethality assessment instrument and accompanying referral protocol that helps first responders make a differentiated response that is tailored to the unique circumstances of High-Danger victims.
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March 2015
Report of the inquiry concerning Canada of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under article 8 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Publisher(s): This report includes recommendations from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in response to the extremely high levels of violence experienced by aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
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January 2015
Stalking Fact Sheet
Publisher(s):This fact sheet from the Stalking Resource Center defines stalking, lists some common stalking tactics, and offers statistics on the prevalence of stalking. Note that several of the main tactics include the misuse of technology, and that there are links between stalking, domestic violence, and intimate partner homicide.
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January 2015
Georgia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project: 12th Annual Report
Publisher(s):This Report features the story of Trisha, a young woman who lost her mother to domestic violence homicide at the tender age of 14.
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January 2015
2014 Femicide Report
Publisher(s):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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December 2014
Strangulation and Domestic Violence
Publisher(s): This webinar discusses the findings of medical research from Louisville, Kentucky on strangulation in the context of domestic violence. Faculty consider “best practices” in domestic violence strangulation cases for law enforcement, expert witnesses, prosecutors and judges.
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December 2014
El Paso, Texas: A Coordinated Effort to Remove Firearms from Domestic Abusers
Publisher(s): This brief document highlights how a coordinated response to firearm removal can increase the efficiency of a jurisdiction’s surrender procedures. El Paso’s efforts resulted in a guide of multidisciplinary protocols of firearm surrender that may be adapted to meet the removal goals of many jurisdictions.
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July 2014
Police Departments’ Use of the Lethality Assessment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Publisher(s):This report describes the Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP), created by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV) in 2005, which is an innovative strategy to prevent domestic violence homicides and serious injuries.