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Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides 2020-2024 Year 4 Report (annual) |
Hoeger, K., et al. |
2025 |
This report provides analysis of four years of data from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2024 from the VKPP national Domestic Homicide Project which works across England and Wales. It also looking at previously unreported data from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024 (Year 4) in isolation. |
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2000 Women (annual) |
Ingala Smith et al. |
2025 |
Analysis of the first 2,000 women and girls aged 14 years and above, killed in the UK since 2009, where a man or men were identified by state bodies as being responsible. |
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Sandi Dheensa et al. |
2025 |
This article presents an analysis of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) reports from England and Wales where the victim or perpetrator had a cancer diagnosis to investigate the nature of domestic abuse in a cancer context, and cancer care and other healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) responses to domestic abuse. |
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Vanessa Munro, Sarah Dangar and Lotte Young Andrade |
2025 |
This article reports on an analysis of reviews completed in England and Wales in cases of domestic abuse‐related suicide, and interviews with professionals and bereaved family members. |
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Beáta Ágnes Borsay |
2025 |
This article includes an international literature review on murder-suicide/homicide. |
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Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2024 (annual)
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ONS Centre for Crime and Justice |
2025 |
Analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index, which contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales. |
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Domestic Homicide Reviews: The role of family, friends and community - ‘A hierarchy of testimony’? |
Sarah Dangar on behalf of WWiN and AAFDA |
2024 |
These reviews offer a lasting narrative of individuals’ lives and deaths, and of the experiences of those that are left behind. |
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Key findings from analysis of domestic homicide reviews: September 2021 to October 2022 (annual) |
Richard Potter |
2024 |
This report summarises information from Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) which went before the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel for the 12 months between September 2021 and October 2022. |
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A systematic review of literature on homicide followed by suicide and mental state of perpetrators |
Alexis Theodorou, Helen Sinclair, Saima Ali, Seema Sukhwal, Christopher Bassett, Heidi Hales |
2024 |
A review which indicates some preventive role for mental health professionals. |
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Perpetrator Involvement in Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales |
James Rowlands |
2024 |
This paper explores if, why, when, and how perpetrators—directly or by proxy—are involved in DHRs, the potential benefits and also perceived or actual risks and challenges |
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Domestic Homicide Review Committees’ Recommendations and Impacts: A Systematic Review |
Cassandra Jones et al. |
2024 |
This article systematically reviews research that examines DVFR/DHR recommendations, impact of these recommendations and proposals for improving DVFR/DHR processes. |
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Naming practices in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales
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James Rowlands |
2024 |
This article reports on analysis of 60 DHR reports exploring how a victim’s real name is routinely taken out of use when a DHR report is published, the name forms used in place of a victim’s real name and the limited explication of both how (pseudo)names were chosen and the role of the family. |
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MacInnes. P., et al. |
2024 |
This article analyses the findings of 186 Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) to describe the patterns of mental health service use by perpetrators of domestic homicide in England and Wales. Separate analyses were conducted for perpetrators of intimate partner homicide (IPH) and family homicide. |
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Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides 2020-2023 Year 3 Report |
Hoeger, K., et al. |
2024 |
The third annual report from the VKPP national Domestic Homicide Project which works across England and Wales. |
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Marinkovic Chavez, K., et al.
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2024 |
This study investigated the experiences of young people and adults bereaved by parental intimate partner homicide during childhood, to gain a better understanding of how they make sense of and share their personal story after such a loss. |
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School-based support for children bereaved due to parental intimate partner homicide
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Frederick, J., et al.
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2024 |
This paper aims to understand how best to provide school-based support for children following parental intimate partner homicide by investigating the experiences of affected children, their caregivers and professionals with experience of working with these children. |
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Domestic Homicide Project Spotlight Briefing #6: Young Victims |
Bates, L., et al. |
2024 |
This briefing analyses all 57 cases in the project dataset over the first three years and 10 months of the project (01/04/2020–30/01/2024) involving a young victim aged 16 to 24 years old who was either killed by an intimate partner or was suspected to have taken their own life following abuse from an intimate partner. |
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Eastwood et al. |
2024 |
This qualitative study aimed to generate a better understanding of post-homicide experiences and needs in the context of identity to improve support for these neglected victim-survivors. |
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Graham, L. M., et al. |
2024 |
This scoping review located and synthesized research on child fatalities that resulted from intimate partner violence (IPV), seeking to understand the state of global research concerning the prevalence and circumstances of IPV-related child fatalities |
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Professional support for children bereaved by domestic homicide in the UK |
Gomersall et al. |
2024 |
In this article, current service provision for children bereaved by domestic homicide in the UK is evaluated. |
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Jennifer Daw, Gemma Halliwell, Susie Hay, Suzanne Jacob |
2023 |
Survivor-led research initiative which used Framework Analysis, to analyse data from 12 women who had experienced non-violent coercive control (NCC) within an intimate partner relationship. |
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Domestic Homicide Oversight Mechanism: HALT study Adult Social Care briefing |
Khatidja Chantler, Victoria Baker, Kim Heyes and Clare Gunby |
2023 |
The study focused on understanding the types of recommendations made in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) for Adult Social Care (ASC) in relation to intimate partner homicide (IPH) and adult family homicide (AFH). |
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Domestic Homicide Oversight Mechanism: HALT study physical & mental health services briefing |
Khatidja Chantler, Victoria Baker, Kim Heyes and Clare Gunby |
2023 |
The study focused on understanding the types of recommendations made in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) for Health relating to intimate partner homicide (IPH) and adult family homicide (AFH). |
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Domestic Homicide Oversight Mechanism for Children’s Services: Summary of findings
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Khatidja Chantler, Victoria Baker, Kim Heyes and Clare Gunby |
2023 |
The study focused on understanding the types of recommendations made in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) for Children’s Services relating to intimate partner homicide (IPH) and adult family homicide (AFH) |
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Life or Death? Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women |
Centre for Women’s Justice and Imkaan |
2023 |
This research examines the obstacles faced by Black and minoritised women who lose their lives in domestic homicide and suicide in the context of domestic abuse. |
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An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales |
Khatidja Chantler et al. |
2023 |
This article considers how minoritisation features in DHRs in England and Wales and identifies critical learning in relation to addressing minoritisation. |
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Clare Wade KC. |
2023 |
A government initiated review into reforms required to strengthen the powers of courts in passing sentences in cases of domestic homicide. |
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Suzan Soydas et al. |
2023 |
A study of 60 treatment-seeking children and young people following parental intimate partner homicide in the UK. |
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Learning Legacies: An Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews in Cases of Domestic Abuse Suicide |
Sarah Dangar, Vanessa E. Munro and Lotte Young Andrade |
2023 |
This study is the first of its kind to undertake a systematic review of DHRs that have been commissioned, completed and published in cases of domestic abuse suicide in England and Wales. |
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James Rowlands and Sarah Dangar |
2023 |
Interviews with 18 participants, from a larger study, involved in Suicide Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews were re-read and themes interrogated to offer insight into the underlying challenges. |
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Elizabeth A. Cook, James Rowlands, Kelly Bracewell, Cassandra Jones, Grace Boughton |
2023 |
This article examines both the practice of DHR and how it is utilised as data in research. |
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Juliette Hasham and Dr. Katie Thorlby. |
2023 |
Beyond the Streets commissioned this report to investigate the prevalence of involvement in the sex industry amongst publicly available DHRs. |
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James Rowlands and Elizabeth Cook |
2022 |
This conceptual article interrogates the purpose, process and outcomes of family involvement within DHRs. |
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Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide |
Rachel Condry and Caroline Miles |
2022 |
This article focuses on the important and persistent phenomenon of women killed by their sons. |
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Led by Professor Khatidja Chantler, based at Manchester Metropolitan University |
2022 |
A range of domestic homicide related briefings created by the HALT (Homicide, Abuse, Learning, Together) project. |
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A Trisonance: Identities of Women Whose Mothers Were Murdered by Their Fathers |
Shani Pitcho-Prelorentzos, Elazar Leshem, Michal Mahat-Shamir |
2022 |
This study aimed to examine the narrative identities of women bereaved to intimate partner femicide by interviewing eleven adult Israeli female offspring whose biological mothers were murdered by their biological fathers. |
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Lis Bates et al. |
2022 |
The second annual report from the VKPP national Domestic Homicide Project which works across England and Wales. |
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Kelly Bracewell, et al. |
2022 |
This article presents an analysis from 66 domestic homicide reviews (DHRs) in England and Wales where the victim and perpetrator were related, such as parent and adult child. |
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Phoebe Perry et al. |
2022 |
This briefing draws on 18 months of VKPP project data comprising 294 domestic homicides and suspected victim suicides following domestic abuse. |
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Domestic/Family Homicide: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence |
M Truong et al. |
2022 |
A review of the empirical evidence on domestic/family homicide. |
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Reviewing in a pandemic? A commentary on COVID-19 and domestic homicide review |
James Rowlands |
2022 |
This paper reflects on how COVID-19 affected the delivery and experience of DHRs, the place of victims at the heart of this process and what the pandemic’s impact might mean moving forward. |
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Domestic Homicide Review Committees’ Recommendations and Impacts: A Systematic Review |
Cassandra Jones et al. |
2022 |
This study systematically reviews research that examines DVFR/DHR recommendations, impact of these recommendations and proposals for improving DVFR/DHR processes. |
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Inside the black box: domestic homicide reviews as a source of data |
James Rowlands, Kelly Bracewell |
2022 |
This article explores the implications of limited engagement with DHRs as a process of knowledge generation to date. It focuses on the implications for researchers, in particular the epistemological and methodological issues that arise, before considering what this might mean for policy and practice. |
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Alina Haines-Delmont, Kelly Bracewell, Khatidja Chantler |
2022 |
This paper explores the barriers and facilitators to the conduct and impact of DHRs to enhance their learning potential. It is based on 19 qualitative interviews with professionals involved in the DHR process across 5 Safeguarding Boards in Wales and 14 Community Safety Partnerships in the North-West of England. |
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Intimate Partner Homicides in Norway 1990–2020: An Analysis of Incidence and Characteristics
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Solveig K. B. Vatnar, Christine Friestad, Stal Bjørkly |
2022 |
This study considers to what extent is increased awareness of intimate partner violence as a serious social problem paralleled in changes over time in the empirical landscape of IPH? |
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P Maccines |
2021 |
This article describes the characteristics of perpetrators of domestic homicide in a sample of DHR reports in which the perpetrator was known to mental health services in the 12 months before the offence. |
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What Can We Learn From Domestic Homicide Reviews With Male Victims? |
Katie Hope, Elizaeth Bates, Elizabeth, Mark Brooks, Mark and Julie Taylor |
2021 |
This article reports on an analysis of 22 Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) conducted in England and Wales into the domestic-abuse related deaths of men. |
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Domestic Homicides and Suspected Victim Suicides During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2020-2021 |
Bates, L., et al. |
2021 |
The first annual report from the VKPP national Domestic Homicide Project which works across England and Wales. |
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Women Who Kill: How The State Criminalises Women We Might Otherwise Be Burying |
Centre for Women’s Justice and Justice for Women |
2021 |
This research explores why there continue to be so many miscarriages of justice and why there are still so many women who are themselves victims, serving life imprisonment for choosing to survive. |
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Bracewell, K. and Jones, C. Haines-Delmont, A. Craig, E. Duxbury, J. Chantler, K. |
2021 |
This article addresses this presents an analysis from 66 DHRs in England and Wales where the victim and perpetrator were related, such as parent and adult child. |
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James Rowlands |
2021 |
In England and Wales, DHRs examine domestic abuse-related deaths to identify lessons to be learned. However, their emergence as a policy initiative has been little considered. To address this gap, a thematic discourse analysis of policy documents to 2011 was undertaken, examining the justification for, and conceptualisation of, DHRs before their implementation. |
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Kenzie Hanson, Alexandra Lysova |
2021 |
This study analysed 203 English-language news articles of IPH involving male victims and female perpetrators for the year 2019 and, using thematic analysis, identified the main themes. |
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James Rowlands, Elizabeth A. Cook |
2021 |
This conceptual article interrogates the purpose, process and outcomes of family involvement within DHRs. |
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James Rowlands |
2020 |
Utilising a researcher and practitioner perspective, this paper considers ethical issues, in particular those that concern ‘victim voice’. Conceptual and practical implications are discussed that might more fully foreground victim voice. |
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Technology, Cyberstalking and Domestic Homicide: Informing Prevention and Response Strategies |
Chris Todd, Joanne Bryce and Virginia N. L. Franqueira |
2020 |
This study examined the extent to which there was evidence of the role of technology and cyberstalking in domestic homicide cases based on analysis of 41 Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) documents, made available by the Home Office (UK). |
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Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’ |
Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring |
2020 |
This article provides a critical analysis of the use of rough sex/SM in female homicide cases and proposed legal reforms. |
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Reviewing domestic homicide - international practice and perspectives |
James Rowlands |
2020 |
This report focuses on the principles which underpin the review of domestic homicides internationally, as well as considering issues like establishment, cases selection, membership, sense-making, and the production of learning and recommendations. It then considers the implications for DHRs in England and Wales, in light of the strengths and weaknesses of current arrangements. |
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Intimate Partner Homicide in Denmark 2007-2017: Tracking Potential Predictors of Fatal Violence |
Søren Rye; Caroline Angel |
2019 |
This study reviews the characteristics of intimate partner homicide in Denmark that may inform more accurate prediction and prevention of such crimes, and how knowledge of those facts is distributed across families, police and other agencies. |
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Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales |
Chantler, Khatidja; Robbins, Rachel; Baker, Victoria Louise and Stanley, Nicky |
2019 |
This paper aims to contribute to the prevention of future domestic homicide by analysing 141 DHRs in England and Wales. |
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London Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Case Analysis and Review of Local Authorities DHR Process |
Bear Montique |
2019 |
This report is a case analysis and review of local authorities DHR Process. It examines 84 DHRs between 2011 and 2018, including an in-depth look at intersectional themes. |
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Real lives and Lost lives: Making sense of ‘locked in’ responses to intimate partner homicide |
Professor Sandra Walklate; Anna Hopkins |
2019 |
A thematic analysis of Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPPC) Reports for England and Wales from 2005 to 2015 relating to IPH and available as public documents. |
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Benbow, Susan Mary; Bhattacharyya, Sarmishtha; Kingston, Paul |
2018 |
14 adult family homicides, 16 intimate partner homicides and five homicide–suicide DHR reports were thematically analysed, and key themes identified. |
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Hannah Bows |
2018 |
This article presents data drawn from a larger parent study examining homicide of older people (aged 60 and over) in the UK. This analysis is based on a subset of cases that would fall within current definitions of DH. |
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Domestic abuse and suicide - Exploring the links with Refuge’s client base and work force |
Ruth Aitken and Vanessa E. Munro |
2018 |
An investigation into the links between domestic abuse and suicide in order to fill gaps in existing knowledge about the factors that might predict, contribute to or mitigate against the development of suicidality in victims. |
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Eamonn Bridger; Heather Strang; John Parkinson; Lawrence W. Sherman |
2017 |
This study conducted a detailed review of investigative source material, police database information and the official independent author reviews of the 188 cases of intimate partner homicide recorded in England and Wales between April 2011 and March 2013. |
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Nicola Sharp-Jeffs and Liz Kelly |
2016 |
Commissioned by Standing Together Against Domestic Violence, this is an analysis of 32 DHRs chaired by its associates, to identify and explore emerging themes, thereby contributing learning to the national picture. |
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Domestic Homicide Reviews: Key Findings from Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews |
Home Office |
2016 |
This document identifies common themes and trends in domestic homicide and recommends how local areas can use this information to prevent domestic abuse. |
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Preventing Domestic Violence and Abuse: Common Themes and Lessons Learned from West Midlands' DHRs |
Dr Lucy Neville et al. |
2014 |
This research provides a collation of the key learnings from 13 DHRs completed or underway across the West Midlands area. |
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ACPO |
2014 |
A Guide for the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Local Safeguarding Children Boards. |
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Mental Illness and Domestic Homicide: A Population-Based Descriptive Study
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Sian Oram et al. |
2013 |
The study found a significant minority of adult domestic homicide perpetrators had symptoms of mental illness at the time of the homicide. |
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The Domestic Violence Fatality Review: Can It Mobilize Community-Level Change? |
Heather L. Storer, Taryn Lindhorst and Kelly Starr |
2013 |
This research evaluated whether the recommendations made by one state-level Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews had an effect on community and organisational priorities and practices. |
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Evan Stark |
2012 |
Evan Stark casts a critical eye to the widely accepted procedure called Dangerousness Assessment. He discusses the rationales for using the methodology, which may be of critical value in some cases but misses the bigger picture as far as the kinds of abuse most victims suffer on a daily basis. |
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Louise Casey CB |
2011 |
This report sets out the findings of a review by the Victims' Commissioner's office that gathered demographic information on the families being supported by the Homicide Service. |
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Marilyn Armour |
2010 |
This article highlights what is known about the survivors of domestic homicide, including developmental issues for children, the myriad of complex loyalty binds, help-seeking behaviours, and the unrelenting conditions that bar resolution. |
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'If only we'd known' : an exploratory study of seven intimate partner homicides in Engleshire |
Linda Regan, Liz Kelly, Anne Morris & Rebecca Dibb |
2007 |
This research examined what families and wider informal networks knew during about the couple’s relationship during the period leading up to the victim’s death, to enhance understanding of femicide and improve agency responses. |
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Theodore Gaensbauer et al. |
1995 |
Presenting the case of a girl who, at the age of 1 year, witnessed her mother's violent death. She was first seen by a child psychiatrist at age 4 years and has remained symptomatic for more than 5 years after the traumatic event. |
