Moving Forward: Reducing the Risk of Lethal Domestic Violence Through Collaborative Threat Assessment and Risk Management
October 26-27, 2010
London, Ontario
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Conference Resources
Reports
Keeping Women Alive – Assessing The Danger
Dr. Kathleen Cairns and Irene Hoffart
Training Needs of Community Professionals Involved in Threat Assessment and Risk Management in Domestic Violence Cases: Feedback from an Ontario Multidisciplinary Forum
Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children
Prevention Domestic Homicide of Women: An Intervention Guide.
Agir pour prévenir l'homicide de la conjointe: Guide d'intervention
Campbell, M. (2010). Évaluation des menaces et gestion des risques dans les cas de violence familiale: Un aperçu de la collaboration entre le système judiciaire et les organismes communautaires en Ontario pour 2010 et à l'avenir. London, Canada: Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children.
Campbell, M. (2010). Threat assessment and risk management in domestic violence cases: An overview of ontario justice and community collaboration for 2010 and future directions. London, Canada: Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children.
Domestic Violence Death Review Committees2009 Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Report
2010 Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Report
Lessons Learned from Tragedies: The Ontario DVDRC
Myrna Dawson and Peter Jaffe
Moving Forward on Threat Assessment & Risk Management: Lessons from BC DV Homicide Reviews
Tracy Porteous
Lessons Learned from the United States about Effective Fatality Review Teams
Kelly A. Watt
Domestic Violence and Aboriginal Women
Understanding Aboriginal Women and Experiences of Violence
Claudette Dumont-Smith
Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Report to Families and Communities, 2nd Edition.
Dealing with Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Rural and Remote Ontario
Gloria Harris
Risk Assessment Tools
Inventory of Spousal Violence Risk Assessment Tools Used in Canada
Allison Millar
Alberta’s Women’s Shelters & the Danger Assessment Tool
Carolyn Goard
Workshop on the Intersections between Vulnerabilities and Criminal Justice Processing of Intimate Partner Violence
Holly Johnson
Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Children and Domestic Violence
Lessons Learned from Child Protection System's Involvement in Domestic Homicides
Maureen Reid
Perpetrators
Reaching Out to Perpetrators in the Court System before More Harm is Done
Robert Morris
Support for Men Accused of a Domestic Violence Offence
Lisa Heslop
Threat Assessment and Risk Management
Keeping Victims Safe in Halifax: A Coordinated Approach
Verona Singer
Promising Practices in Risk Assessment: The BC Experience
P. Randall Kropp
Risk Management in Rural and Remote Communities – A Yukon Perspective
Lesley Carberry
Threat Assessment in the OPP
Debra Heaton
Reducing the Risk of Lethal Violence
Collaboration in Threat Assessment & Risk Management: From Theory to Practice
February 7-9, 2010, Hamilton, Ontario
Purpose:
“An effective response to domestic violence requires not only well-informed individual interventions, but also coordination of services by different professionals involved with family members.”1
“Threat assessment and risk management can be better achieved when different individuals who intersect with clients at separate points are able to put risk factors together to form a complete picture.”2
Case reviews by the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee consistently show that cross-sectoral collaboration can increase the effectiveness of responses to high risk situations. Other research on intervention strategies has validated that threat assessment and risk management is most successful when professionals within the justice system and community services who interact with clients at distinct times and in distinct settings work together.3
In Ontario we have begun to establish teams focused on providing an appropriate response to high-risk cases of spousal violence. They are involved in developing comprehensive safety plans and risk management strategies with the parties involved, ensuring appropriate monitoring and an ongoing evaluation of the level of risk.
This conference is an opportunity for partners from the justice sector and from community-based services to come together to discuss the challenges and benefits of cross-sectoral collaboration and to build stronger relationships. Strong working relationships provide the foundation for collaboration, thereby increasing the effectiveness of our responses to high risk cases of woman abuse/domestic violence.
1 Domestic Violence Death Review Committee. Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Annual Report to the Chief Coroner, 2005: Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario. (2005). 21.
2 Transforming our Communities Report from the Domestic Violence Advisory Council for the Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, (2009). 92.
3 Gondolf, E. W. (2002). Batterer Intervention Systems: Issues, Outcomes, and Recommendations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
Campbell, M. (2010). Threat assessment and risk management in domestic violence cases: An overview of ontario justice and community collaboration for 2010 and future directions. London, Canada: Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children.
Campbell, M. (2010). Évaluation des menaces et gestion des risques dans les cas de violence familiale: Un aperçu de la collaboration entre le système judiciaire et les organismes communautaires en Ontario pour 2010 et à l'avenir. London, Canada: Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children.
Conference Resources
Presentations
Community Approaches to Interpersonal Violence Risk Assessment: Challenges and Strategies
Jacquelyn Campbell
Threat Assessment in the OPP
Debra Heaton
Coordinated Response to Children Exposed to DV: Building Safety Through Communication and Coordination
Maureen Reid
Hamilton High Risk Domestic Violence Community Advisory Vommittee: Resolving the Conflict Between Confidentiality and Information Sharing
Marco Visentini
High Risk Review Teams
Belleville High Risk Action Review Team
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Home Audit
Family Violence Project Waterloo Region
Hamilton Police Service High Risk Domestic Violence Initiative
Hamilton Memorandum of Understanding
High Risk Action Review Team Belleville: Assessment Form
High Risk Action Review Team Belleville Brochure
High Risk Action Review Team Belleville Teleconference Form
Police Services Act - Ontario Regulation 265/98: Disclosure of Personal Information
Journal Articles
Helping Women Understand their Risk in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
The Danger Assessment: Validation of a Lethality Risk Assessment Instrument for Intimate Partner Femicide
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Daniel W. Webster & Nancy Glass
A Prevention-Based Paradigm for Violence Risk Assessment: Clinical and Research Applications
Kevin S. Douglas & P. Randall Kropp
Assessing Risk Markers in Intimate Partner Femicide and Severe Violence: A New Assessment Instrument
Enrique Echeburúa, Javier Fernández-Montalvo, Paz de Corral & José J. López-Goñi
Batterer Program Participants Who Repeatedly Reassault: Psychopathic Tendencies and Other Disorders
Edward W. Gondolf & Robert J. White
Intimate Partner Violence: Predictors of Recidivism in a Sample of Arrestees
Rodney Kingsnorth
Some Questions Regarding Spousal Assault Risk Assessment
P. Randall Kropp
Violence Risk Factors in Stalking and Obsessional Harassment: A Review and Preliminary Meta-Analysis
Barry Rosenfeld
A Comparison of Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence–Related Injury Across Two National Surveys on Violence Against Women
Martie P. Thompson, Linda E. Saltzman & Holly Johnson
Reports
Domestic Violence Death Review Committee 2009 Report
Honouring Christian Lee - No Private Matter: Protecting Children Living With Domestic Violence
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Inventory of Spousal Violence Risk Assessment Tools Used in Canada
Allison Millar - Research and Statistics Division Department of Justice Canada
Toward a Model for an Integrated, Safety Focused & Child Centered Community Response to Domestic Violence
Children’s Aid Society of London & Middlesex
Transforming our Communities
Report from the Domestic Violence Advisory Council for the Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues
Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Report to Families and Communities
Sisters In Spirit - Native Women’s Association of Canada