This podcast focuses on assessing risk and lethality in family court settings. Featured guest speakers are Tracy Shoberg, Deputy Director of the National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence with the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP), and Referee Mary Madden, recently retired District Court Referee of Minnesota’s 4th Judicial District’s Family Court. This podcast … Continued
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) hosted a Lunch and Learn Series: A Break from the Bench. For this session, Rebecca Thomforde-Hauser, Director of Accountability and Engagement on the DV RISC project, participated in a 45-minute panel that discusses what’s essential for judge to know about domestic violence risk and lethality.
This podcast focuses on assessing risk and lethality and using intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessments in judicial settings. Featured guest speakers are: Danielle Pugh, Senior Director of Judicial Education and Leadership at the Center for Justice Innovation, Judge Million (Tucson Domestic Violence Court), chair of the Arizona Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Impact … Continued
Identifying risk to children in domestic violence cases is a growing area of concern for jurisdictions and many sites have expressed a need for more information in this area. In this webinar, Darren Mitchell, DV RISC consultant and National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) fellow, presents on identifying risk to children in … Continued
Sheila Schwanekamp, Esq. and the Hon. Mary Carney from the New York State Integrated Family Court (NYSIFC) present on the use and development of the NYS Judicial Risk Assessment Guide in domestic violence cases, a guide implemented to help NYSIFC judges identify lethality risk factors in domestic violence cases.
Dr. Kirk Williams, one of the authors of Domestic Violence Screening Inventory-Revised (DVSI-R) and Joe DiTunno, Deputy Director for the Judicial Branch of Connecticut, present on the use and development of the DVSI-R in Connecticut.
Webinar by Darren Mitchell, DV RISC Consultant, and Sandra Shanahan, Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit, on addressing strategies to mitigate abusers’ access to firearms in domestic violence cases.
Webinar by Judge Wendy Million, Tucson City DV Court, on assessing risk in court settings and using the APRAIS.
The Tucson City Domestic Violence Court is a high-volume criminal misdemeanor court. The Court specifically provides services and safety for Deaf victims of domestic violence through their partnership with Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse and the Community Outreach Program for the Deaf. Check out brief videos on the court, survivor engagement, and their use of risk … Continued
The current study was designed to assess the utility of recidivism risk assessments for individuals charged with, or convicted of, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in pretrial settings. Building on prior reviews, the researchers completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of risk assessments among IPV aggressors to summarize their predictive validity in multiple types of recidivism, … Continued