Overview
- Analyses the efficacy of both current and developing prevention initiatives for domestic violence fatalities
- Discusses procedure for intervention strategies and how these differ between developed and developing countries
- Assesses the range of different factors which lead to domestic violence deaths
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Country-Specific Focus on Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews
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Understanding the Challenges, Benefits and Impacts of Domestic Violence Death Reviews
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Reviews
“Domestic violence death review teams have surfaced around the world with an important focus on understanding why domestic violence homicides occur and what can be done to prevent their occurrence in the future.
This comprehensive resource is essential reading for serious scholars, students, advocates, and concerned citizens alike with an interest in understanding domestic homicide and the essential role of death review teams in fostering greater opportunities for prevention. The book provides the most comprehensive and current knowledge and learnings regarding the evolution of domestic homicide death review teams, the range of challenges that have been faced, as well as the scale and scope for having real impact for victims and their families.
This important book captures the international knowledge and experiences required for confronting the barriers and obstacles that restrict the impact of death review teams. Significantly, this book illustrates the pathways required for saving lives.” (Professor Paul Mazerolle, Pro Vice Chancellor, Arts, Education and Law, Griffith University, Australia)
“This is an important book for anyone concerned with policy and practice relevant to addressing domestic violence. Homicide is arguably the most devastating of the many impacts of domestic violence. It is particularly disturbing that so many domestic violence homicides occur, yet most are predictable and, therefore, preventable. In this first international comparison of domestic violence death review processes, this book draws on extensive expertise in this highly specialised field, through its editors and its contributors—many of them renowned domestic violence scholars. It includes a range of critical perspectives, with discussion focussed on the role of family members in death review processes, children killed in the context of domestic violence, and Indigenous populations and the death review process. The book also provides an honest account of the challenges faced by death review committees, such as defining domestic violent related homicides, and the implications of these challenges for policy analysis.” (Dr Heather Nancarrow, Chief Executive Officer, Anrows, Australia)
“This book is a “must read” for researchers and practitioners working in the field of domestic violence. The collection of international articles on the composition, process and impact of death reviews provides readers with a critical road map to key developments and ongoing challenges in confronting the high toll of domestic homicides around the world.” (Jane Ursel, Professor of Sociology University of Manitoba)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Editors: Myrna Dawson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56276-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56275-3Published: 30 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56276-0Published: 19 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 408
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminological Theory, Violence and Crime, Women's Studies, Social Policy, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Victimology