Practitioners dealing with domestic abuse often claim that the problem escalates over time in both seriousness and frequency. We tested those claims on 36,000 police records of domestic abuse between 2009 and 2014 reported to Suffolk Constabulary in the east of England. Using the Cam-bridge Crime Harm Index as the measure of harm severity, we found no escalation in the majority of cases; 76 % of all unique victim and offender units (dyads) had zero repeat calls. Among the cohort of 727 dyads who called police 5 or more times, there was no evidence for statistically significant escalating harm severity, but some evidence of increasing frequency. Less than 2 % of dyads accounted for 80 % of all domestic abuse harm, but in over half of these h...
Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use risk assessment tools...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant problem in society today. Many approaches have been...
It is becoming increasingly recognized that controlling behaviours are a widespread form of harm exp...
Domestic violence often remains a hidden crime. After a reform to the Finnish Penal Code in 2011, th...
This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victim...
This is the final version of the article. Available from Queen's University Belfast, School of Law v...
This article evaluates whether female victims of severe physical, psycholog-ical, or sexual intimate...
Humberside Criminal Justice Board identified emerging evidence that suggested the prevalence and sev...
Critics of the criminalization of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-p...
This article considers emerging data on the escalation of domestic abuse in lockdown and, with refer...
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns have provided an unprecedented opportunity to study h...
Abstract Recent literature suggests certain turning points can create necessary conditions for crime...
• The decline in the rate of domestic violence since the mid-1990s has stopped, although violent cri...
One increasingly important resource for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) is domestic viole...
The effects of preventing a COVID-19 health crisis have had unintended consequences on domestic abus...
Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use risk assessment tools...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant problem in society today. Many approaches have been...
It is becoming increasingly recognized that controlling behaviours are a widespread form of harm exp...
Domestic violence often remains a hidden crime. After a reform to the Finnish Penal Code in 2011, th...
This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victim...
This is the final version of the article. Available from Queen's University Belfast, School of Law v...
This article evaluates whether female victims of severe physical, psycholog-ical, or sexual intimate...
Humberside Criminal Justice Board identified emerging evidence that suggested the prevalence and sev...
Critics of the criminalization of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-p...
This article considers emerging data on the escalation of domestic abuse in lockdown and, with refer...
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns have provided an unprecedented opportunity to study h...
Abstract Recent literature suggests certain turning points can create necessary conditions for crime...
• The decline in the rate of domestic violence since the mid-1990s has stopped, although violent cri...
One increasingly important resource for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) is domestic viole...
The effects of preventing a COVID-19 health crisis have had unintended consequences on domestic abus...
Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use risk assessment tools...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant problem in society today. Many approaches have been...
It is becoming increasingly recognized that controlling behaviours are a widespread form of harm exp...