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AIC: Proposing a Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre to prevent intimate partner homicide

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The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new Research in Practice paper titled Targeting fixated individuals to prevent intimate partner homicide: Proposing the Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre.

Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is one of the most common forms of homicide in Australia and women are the victims in three-quarters of all IPH cases.
Recent research characterises some perpetrators as motivated by fixation and grievances. These fixated perpetrators hold an intense preoccupation with victims, often driven by a grievance, during the acute phases of risk.

In this paper we propose the Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre. Modelled on Fixated Threat Assessment Centres, the proposed centre could offer a multi-agency approach to information gathering, monitoring and intervention among domestic violence perpetrators during periods of acute risk for escalation.