Saving Lives: Working across Agencies and Individuals to Reduce Intimate Homicide among those at Greatest Risk

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This special issue of the Journal of Family Violence offers insights on intimate homicide prevention from leading researchers and practitioners. The insights offered are timely, given the pervasiveness of domestic violence (DV), including some data since the emergence of COVID-19 noting an increase in DV-related cases with severe injury and police calls. Contributors in this special issue argue for interagency advocacy, protection orders, and firearm removal, along with reimagining data capture, risk assessment, firearm protocols, and fatality reviews to improve equitable services and care for DV survivors at the highest risk of homicide.

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Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: results from a multisite case control study.

Jacquelyn Campbell, Daniel Webster, Jane Koziol-McLain … (2003)

This 11-city study sought to identify risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships. Proxies of 220 intimate partner femicide victims identified from police or medical examiner records were interviewed, along with 343 abused control women. Preincident risk factors associated in multivariate analyses with increased risk of intimate partner femicide included perpetrator's access to a gun and previous threat with a weapon, perpetrator's stepchild in the home, and estrangement, especially from a controlling partner. Never living together and prior domestic violence arrest were associated with lowered risks. Significant incident factors included the victim having left for another partner and the perpetrator's use of a gun. Other significant bivariate-level risks included stalking, forced sex, and abuse during pregnancy. There are identifiable risk factors for intimate partner femicides.

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Reducing violence using community-based advocacy for women with abusive partners.

Cris Sullivan, Deborah Bybee (1999)

An intensive community-based advocacy intervention was designed and evaluated by randomly assigning 278 battered women to an experimental or control condition. Participants were interviewed 6 times over a period of 2 years. Retention rate averaged 95% over the 2 years. The 10-week postshelter intervention involved providing trained advocates to work 1-on-1 with women, helping generate and access the community resources they needed to reduce their risk of future violence from their abusive partners. Women who worked with advocates experienced less violence over time, reported higher quality of life and social support, and had less difficulty obtaining community resources. More than twice as many women receiving advocacy services experienced no violence across the 2 years postintervention compared with women who did not receive such services.

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Do protection orders affect the likelihood of future partner violence and injury?

Diana E. Wolf, Mary Kernic, Frederick Rivara … (2002)

Approximately 20% of U.S. women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) annually obtain a civil protection order (CPO). The effect of these orders on future abuse has been estimated in only a few studies, with mixed results. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a CPO on the risk of future self-reported IPV and injury. In this prospective cohort study of 448 adult female Seattle WA residents with IPV between October 1997 and December 1998, interviews were conducted at baseline, 5 months, and 9 months after the index incident. Odds ratios (ORs) estimated risks of contact; unwelcome calls or visits; threats; weapon threats; psychological, sexual, or physical abuse or injury; and abuse-related medical care among women who obtained a CPO after the index incident, compared with those who did not. Women who obtained a CPO following the index IPV incident had significantly decreased risk of contact by the abuser (OR=0.4); weapon threats (OR=0.03); injury (OR=0.3); and abuse-related medical care (OR=0.2) between the first and second follow-up interviews. Stronger decreases in risk were seen among women who had maintained the CPO throughout follow-up, which were significant for contact by the abuser (OR=0.2); weapon threats (OR=0.02); psychological abuse (OR=0.4); sexual abuse (OR=0.2); physical abuse (OR=0.3); injury (OR=0.1); and abuse-related medical care (OR=0.1) between first and second follow-up interviews. CPOs are associated with decreased likelihood of subsequent physical and nonphysical IPV.

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Amy Bonomi: bonoae1@gmail.com

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Fam Violence

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Fam Violence

Title: Journal of Family Violence

Publisher: Springer US (New York )

ISSN (Print): 0885-7482

ISSN (Electronic): 1573-2851

Publication date (Electronic): 14 April 2021

Pages: 1-4

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[1 ]GRID grid.17088.36, ISNI 0000 0001 2150 1785, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, , Michigan State University, ; East Lansing, MI USA

[2 ]GRID grid.17088.36, ISNI 0000 0001 2150 1785, Department of Criminal Justice, , Michigan State University, ; East Lansing, MI USA

[3 ]King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, WA Seattle, USA

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Publisher ID: 266

DOI: 10.1007/s10896-021-00266-5

PMC ID: 8044285

PubMed ID: 33867659

SO-VID: f83ef5ce-392b-409f-8b8e-d2e26d591e53

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Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: results from a multisite case control study.

Reducing violence using community-based advocacy for women with abusive partners.

Do protection orders affect the likelihood of future partner violence and injury?

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