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Author: Brown, Melanie

Title: Family Violence Risk Assessment: Review of International Research

Summary: This literature review presents an overview of the international research and best practice literature on family violence risk assessment from over the last decade. It was undertaken for the New Zealand Police to inform any changes they may wish to make to their own family violence risk assessment processes. For that reason it has an emphasis on the literature as it relates to Police organisations, rather than other sectors such as healthcare providers who also have a role in family violence risk assessment. As the New Zealand Police are particularly interested in reducing serious harm and lethality (homicide) from family violence, the focus of this review was literature related to assessing the risk of reassault likely to cause serious harm or lethality. However, few risk assessment tools have been designed to assess lethality and few studies have attempted to identify risk factors specific to lethality—so, in addition to examining those that do, the review also examines the research on predicting reassault, which is increasingly aiming to predict the severity and frequency of reassault as the science of risk assessment becomes more sophisticated. This review outlines the approaches and tools used in family violence risk assessment, the most common risk factors for future violence, and what is known about the effectiveness of the different tools at predicting future violence. The review also sets out what the research says about the use of risk assessment in practice, especially by Police, and the implications for effective risk management.

Details: Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Police, 2011. 60p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 24, 2012 at http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/resources/evaluation/2011-08-04-fv-risk-assessment-review-of-research.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: New Zealand

URL: http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/resources/evaluation/2011-08-04-fv-risk-assessment-review-of-research.pdf

Shelf Number: 126413

Keywords:
Assault (New Zealand)
Domestic Violence (New Zealand)
Family Violence (New Zealand)
Risk Assessment (New Zealand)