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A Guide to Domestic Violence: Risk Assessment, Risk Reduction, and Safety Plan
From the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
Creating a Structured Decision-Making Model for Police Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence (PDF)
by Madeline Wordes Ph.D. - National Council on Crime and Delinquency - Research for the National Institute of Justice on the growing body of knowledge about who is at most risk of committing future domestic violence once an incident has been recognized by police. June 2000. 58 pages.
Mandatory Custody Mediation: Empirical Evidence of Increased Risk for Domestic Violence Victims and Their Children (PDF)
By Dennis Saccuzzo, Nancy E. Johnson and Wendy J. Koen of San Diego State University. 2003 report addressing issues surrounding court mandated mediation, the balance of power, and potential harm to both the battered women and the child victims of domestic violence. 58 pages.
Relevent Research
Identifying Three Types of Violent Offenders and Predicting Violent Recidivism While on Probation: A Classification Tree Analysis. Loretta J. Stalans, Paul R. Yarnold, Magnus Seng, David E. Olson, Michelle Repp. Law and Human Behavior. New York: Jun 2004.Vol.28, Iss. 3; pg. 253
This study employs classification tree analysis (CTA) to address whether 3 groups of violent offenders have similar or different risk factors for violent recidivism while on probation. A sample of 1,344 violent offenders on probation was classified as generalized aggressors (N = 302), family only aggressors (N = 321), or nonfamily only aggressors (N = 717). The strongest predictor of violent recidivism while on probation was whether the offender was a generalized aggressor or not, with generalized aggressors more likely to be arrested for new violent crimes. Prior arrests for violent crimes predicted violent recidivism of generalized aggressors, but did not significantly predict violent recidivism of family only and nonfamily only aggressors. For generalized aggressors and family only batterers, treatment noncompliance was an important risk predictor of violent recidivism. CTA compared to logistic regression classified a higher percentage of cases into low-risk and high-risk groups, provided higher improvement in classification accuracy of violent recidivists beyond chance performance, and provided a better balance of false positives and false negatives. The implications for the risk assessment and domestic violence literature are discussed.
Risk for Intimate Partner Violence and Child Physical Abuse: Psychosocial Chracteristis of Multirisk Male and Female Navy Recruits.
Lex L Merrill, Julie L Crouch, Cynthia J Thomsen, Jennifer M Guimond. Child Mistreatment. Thousand Oaks: Feb 2004.Vol.9, Iss. 1; pg. 18.
This study examined psychosocial characteristics of individuals at risk for perpetrating both intimate partner violence (IPV risk) and child physical abuse (CPA risk). The sample consisted of 775 female and 592 male Navy recruits. The psychosocial variables assessed included symptoms of dysphoria, posttraumatic stress, self-dysfunction, alcohol-related problems, and drug use. IPV risk and CPA risk were positively associated with approximately 9% of the total sample considered multirisk (i.e., positive for both IPV risk and CPA risk). Results of regression analyses revealed that patterns of predictors (demographic and psychosocial variables) for IPV-risk only and CPA-risk only differed with multirisk individuals characterized by the combined predictors of both types of violence risk. Nearly half (47.2%) of the multirisk individuals were characterized by multiple (i.e., two or more) clinical elevations on the psychosocial characteristics assessed.
