Overview

This book focuses on the importance of assessing risk in domestic violence cases to prevent and reduce its escalation into homicide (so called uxoricide). Spousal killers in a substantial number of cases exhibit a history of prior spousal violence: in addition to this, witnessing violence has debilitating effects on children. For this reason domestic violence is also becoming a hot political issue on the European agenda. Integrating the US and Canadian experiences with the European ones increases the book's value and broadens perspectives. Assessing the risk and adopting appropriate measures can help reduce the risk of escalation of violence. It aims at gathering contributions from experts in the field of domestic violence and victimisation to present state of the art research in the risk assessment of domestic violence cases.

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Author:   Anna C Baldry ,  Frans W Winkel
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781600218583

ISBN 10:   160021858
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 September 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Preventing Violence: The Role of Risk Assessment and Management; Development of the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) and the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER); Police-Based Structured Spousal Violence Risk Assessment: the Process of Developing a Police Version of the SARA; Understanding Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Femicide: The Role of Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams; Identifying Domestic Violence Victims at Risk of Hyper-Accessible Traumatic Memories and/or Re-Victimisation Through Validated Screening: The Predictive Performance of the Scanner and the B-SAFER; Intimate Partner Violence and Risk Assessment: The Implementation of the SARA, Screening Version in Italy; Spousal Assault Risk Assessment: The Case of Greece; Caveat Assessor: Potential Pitfalls of Generic Assessment for Intimate Partner Violence; Blended Behaviour Therapy for Intimate Violence; The Response Factor: A Practitioner's Tale; Index.

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