Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use risk assessment tools to identify common risk factors for re-abuse and lethality when responding to domestic abuse. Nevertheless, little is known about the extent to which officers understand and perceive the importance of factors commonly included on risk assessment tools for … Continued
After 2 devastating intimate partner homicides in 2008, High Point, North Carolina Police Department (High Point NC, PD) decided to change its’ approach to domestic violence intervention. At the core of High Point’s approach is a strategy known as focused deterrence, a crime reduction model developed in Boston in the early 1990s as a way … Continued
Since 2009, the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) and partners in High Point, NC have been piloting an Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI), based on the focused deterrence framework. For years, the city struggled to control its IPV problem. Despite efforts to address the problem, IPV rates remained steady and fully a third of … Continued