Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
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Domestic Violence Midterm 2 Exam Questions and Correct Answers
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Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
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Assessment Related To Domestic And Family Violence
DVSI-R (Development, use, dissemination, and research on the revised Domestic Violence Screening Instrument) -developed to assess the risk of persistence in domestic violence
-Incorporation of potential lethality items in the assessment protocol
-Report results of analyzing the pilot data
-Orig...
Domestic Violence Midterm 2 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
DVSI-R (Development, use, dissemination, and research on the revised Domestic
Violence Screening Instrument) ✅-developed to assess the risk of persistence in
domestic violence
-Incorporation of potential lethality items in the assessment protocol
-Report results of analyzing the pilot data
-Originally used by family relations counselors (FRC) to inform recommendations at
arraignment
- Placement-prosecution or family services supervision
- Criminal protective order -none, limited, residential stasy away, no contact
- Now used post-adjudication in CT by probation to inform assigned levels of
supervision
Dissemination of the Instrument
Questions:1.Evidence of non-family assaults, arrest, or criminal conviction?
2. Evidence or prior family violence assaults, threats, or arrests?
3. Prior family violence intervention/treatment(voluntary/involuntary? 4. History of
violation of orders of protection or court supervision?
5. Evidence of substance abuse at time of any family violence incident?
6. Any evidence of object used as weapon in prior or current family violence incident?
7 Were children present during any prior or current family violence incident?
8. Current employment status?
9. Evidence of prior or current verbal or emotional abuse?
10. What has been the frequency of family violence in the past six months?
Femicide ✅-women who were killed by their intimate partners
-7th leading cause of premature death for women in US
-Leading cause of death for African american women aged 15-34
-40-50% of US femicides by an intimate partner
-67% - 80% of IP femicides were previously battered
--approx half of victims (51.4% of actual femicides) did not accurately perceive their risk
of being killed by their partners
attempted: Serious injury to the head, neck or torso
-Strangulation or near drowning with loss of consciousness
-Severe injuries inflicted that easily could have led to death
-Serious injury to other body part with unambiguous intent to kill
-Unambiguous intent to kill
, Danger Assessment guide ✅-Developed in 1985 to increase battered women's ability
to take care of themselves
-Interactive, uses calendar - aids recall plus women come to own conclusions - more
persuasive & in adult learner/ strong woman/ survivor model
-Intended as lethality risk instrument rather than reassault (ex. SARA, DVSI) - risk
factors may overlap but not exactly the same
-15 items yes/no plus calendar (frequency & severity of past year, aids recall)
-Danger assessment has some support for validity in a large national case control study
& can be an important basis for safety planning
-Incorporation of potential lethality items (indicators of dangerousness)
*Selected items from research by Campbell and associates on femicide and the Danger
Assessment Guide (DG)
Potential lethality items included in the DG but not in the DVSI-R:
-Separation estrangement
-Threaten to kill
-Threatened to use or actually used a potentially deadly weapon
-Nonfatal -strangulation
-Tried or threatened to kill self
Warrantless, mandatory, & pro-arrests ✅-police have discretion to make an arrest
If there's probably cause of injury/assault, they have to make an arrest
-Intent of mandatory and preferred arrest policies is to relived the victim of making the
arrest decision
potential lethality ✅-incorporated in Dangerous assessment Guide Protocol, not DVSI-
R
-Life threatening intimate partner violence involving physical force causing severe
injuries that can easily result in death
- All potential lethality items were significantly related to escalation in intimate partner
violence over the past six months
-All potential lethality items except threatened or attempted suicide were significantly
related to felony charges
- none of the potential lethality items were significantly related to recommendations for
prosecution v. family service supervision
-Potential lethality items appear to have substantial influence on proxies of
dangerousness, particularly threatening
-Case processing recommendations (prosecution v. family services supervision) were
influenced more by the assessment of risk that potential lethality
-Victim safety recommendations (criminal protective orders) were influenced by
potential lethality than the assessed risk of persistence
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