Full Description
Hundreds of Domestic Violence Death Review committees, teams, and panels are operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. At the same time, thousands of women are being injured physically, emotionally, and cognitively, and a smaller number are being killed, by their male intimate partners. Femicides represent the tip of the iceberg for non-fatal and fatal injuries inflicted on intimate female partners, and taken together, they constitute an epidemic.
This book investigates attempts made by Domestic Violence Death Reviews (DVDRs) in three different countries to end the epidemic by making recommendations to community-based organizations and agencies, such as women's shelters, substance abuse treatment agencies, and police forces. Thousands of recommendations have been made since these Reviews were first created in 1994, but why have they not decreased the rates of femicide? This book answers this question, describes steps DVDRs can take to increases their fitness for preventing femicide in communities, and also how establishing a DVDR in an indigenous First Nation in Canada can achieve the same end. Readers who are not familiar with DVDRs will learn about similarities and differences in how they operate in three different countries, and why one of them—the Domestic Homicide Review in the United Kingdom—is identified as the model worth replicating in Canada and the United States.
Contents
Introduction
Goal and Purposes
Organization
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 1: Definitions
Homicide
Homicide-suicide
Femicide
Social Issues
Purposes
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 2: History
Media Publicity
System Gaps
Alternative Models
Legislation
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 3: Theory
Patriarchy Theory
Systems Theory
Ecological Theory
Proprietariness Theory
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 4: Research
Sample Selection
Findings
Evaluation
Recommendations
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 5: Implications for Practice
Coronial Rule
Study Design
Definitions
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Selection of Homicide Cases
Selection of Advisory Group Members
Contradictory Objective
Hierarchy of Voice
Public Awareness
Dilemmas
Accountability
Evaluation
Inter-agency Collaboration: DHR and CCR
Femicide-suicide
Arguments
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 6: The Barriers Thesis
Definitions
Conceptual
Empirical
Implications
Summary and lessons learned
Chapter 7: Domestic Violence Homicide Reviews and Indigenous Peoples
Introduction
Nomenclature
Findings
Settler Colonization Theory
Application
Problems
Prospects
Postscript
Summary and Lessons Learned
Chapter 8: Case Studies
Introduction
The West Berkshire Safer Communities Partnership (CSP/DHR)
Ontario Domestic Violence Death Review Committee
Santa Clara Domestic Violence Death Review Team
Summary and Lessons Learned
Conclusions
Chapter 9: Policy
Part One
Part Two
References
Index
Appendix A: Participating in Multi-agency Reviews of Homicide/Femicide Cases
Appendix B: Chairing Multi-agency Homicide Reviews
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