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Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews
Gillian Dennehy, Domestic Homicide Review Manager
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence
Slide2Standing Together: Building the CCR
Slide3Standing Together and DHRs
CCR
principles
Perpetrator AccountabilityNOT a blame gameInformal Networks-AAFDA Intersectional
;
Victim shoes
NationalUniqueDissemination of learning
Slide4Coordinated Community Response (CCR) and Risk
Key Initiatives in UK:
DASH RIC Checklist
IDVA
MARAC
Training
Slide5Key Legal Remedies
CRIMINAL
Cross- Gov. Definition of DA (includes CC) 2013
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 Remedies –Restraining Order, 2012 Stalking Offence
IDAP in sentencing
From 2015:
Offence of Coercive Control
Currently:Ratification Istanbul DV and Abuse Bill 2017
CIVILFamily Law Act 1996 ( amended by DV Crime & Victims Act 2004) –Non Molestation Order, Occupation Orders, DVPO 2014Clare’s Law 2014
Slide6Case Analysis Report
32 homicides
Intimate Partner Homicide- 24
Family-Related Homicide-8
Partner or ex-partner 23
Murder-suicide 4
Partner also carer
6
Matricide 5
Patricide 2
Fratricide 1
75%
25%
Slide7Overview of Victim Demographics
Sex
Age
Ethnicity
Disability
5
Sexuality
Children
27
5
85%
female
15
7
10
20-81; Mean 41
Over ¼ IPH over 58
5/8 AFH BME
⅓ IPH Black Women
15
17
5
27
19% disability
1 gay male victim
1
31
17
7
71% / IPV cases
Slide8Key Themes from DHRs
Identification/assessment and referral pathways
Primary Care and Mental Health
Not always considered, thresholds for assessment, accountability
Age, disability, caring responsibilities
Hold vital information, wider community involvement
Risk
Health
Safeguarding Children
Safeguarding Adults
Informal Networks
Slide9Findings: Common Risk Factors
Abuse to previous partners
Wider offending history
Coercive Control
Jealous surveillance
Separation*
Suicide and attempts of perpetrator
Older women
Disability
Caring relationship
Slide10Women killed in the context of separation –’separation as a process not a single event’
Femicide Census, 2009 - 2015
Slide11Findings for Risk Assessment
FAILURE TO IDENTIFY AND ASSESS RISK
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF COERCIVE CONTROL
NOT ‘WEIGHTING’ VICTIMS CONCERNS
INCIDENTS VIEWED IN ISOLATION
NOT VIEWING RISK AS DYNAMIC
BAIL CONDITIONS SEEN AS ‘MANAGING’ RISK
Slide12What About The Person Who Is The Risk?
Slide13Risk: Key Recommendations Summary
Victim’s perception of danger is crucial.
Not view incidents in isolation- context is everything
Need to improve understanding of coercive control and inherent high risk of non-physical abuse
Risk is fluid, dynamic – need to be regularly reassessed at ‘critical points’
Risk assessment with perpetrators needs to be built in to the practice of many agencies
Slide14The Way Forward: The CCR
Slide15PRACTICE
Training
Implement enquiry
Child Safeguarding: Victim Centred and Perpetrators held to account
Multi-agency working
Recognise Link with Caring
Co-location
Leads / Champions
ResourcesRecord keeping
Joint assessments
Integrated working
Information sharing
Perpetrators
Overall Recommendations:
STRUCTURE
Leadership
Create DA policies
Embed training
Create referral pathways and links with specialist services, MARAC
Improve mechanisms for information sharing
Improve links between health services
Embedded DA leads
Opportunities for commissioning – IRIS, IDVAs etc.
Slide16Empowering rather than Disempowering Survivors:
"Activists and advocates need to be continually reflective about how institutions, such as the criminal justice system, reproduce relations of domination in society, whether gendered, racialized, or classes. And the workings of power are often far more visible to women on the margins of society, or those situated in the intersections of different relations of inequality, than to those nearer the
center
.“ Ellen Pence
Slide17Thank You! Enquiries Welcome!
DHR Manager: Gillian Dennehy
g.dennehy@standingtogether.org.uk
Link to DHR Case Analysis:
http://www.standingtogether.org.uk/news/domestic-homicide-review-case-analysis-report