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Building a temporal sequence for developing prevention strategies, risk assessment, and perpetrator interventions in domestic abuse related suicide, honour killing, and intimate partner homicide
Monckton Smith, J., Siddiqui, H., Haile, S., & Sandham, A.
Objective
• To build narrative tools for developing prevention strategies, risk assessment, and perpetrator interventions in domestic abuse related suicide, honour killing, and intimate partner homicide
Outputs
• Three draft tools were designed from the three data sets using temporal sequencing
• The draft tools represent a simplified presentation of the temporal sequences and were designed for practical use by practitioners
Recommendations
• Each draft tool can be used in three main ways: as an aid to risk assessment; as a means to gather focused data on coercive control and stalking patterns as an aid to consider prevention strategies and perpetrator interventions
• Training in coercive control and stalking patterns is recommended for best use of the tools
Early evaluation
• Training in how to use the tools is important
• The tools can support understanding of coercive control
• The tools are useful for gathering focused data
• The tools are useful for risk assessment
• The temporal sequences can be useful in requesting perpetrator management interventions like protective orders and remand hearings
• The tools are useful for focusing on potential interventions