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Stein, Michelle L.; Miller, Audrey K. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Intimate partner violence (IPV) constitutes the majority of assaults against women in the United States, and greater than one third of female homicide victims are murdered by an intimate partner. In a small percentage of cases, battered women kill their abusers, and evidence of battering and its effects may be used to support a plea of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Females, Family Violence, Psychological Patterns
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Campbell, Jacquelyn C.; Webster, Daniel W.; Glass, Nancy – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
The Danger Assessment (DA) is an instrument designed to assess the likelihood of lethality or near lethality occurring in a case of intimate partner violence. This article describes the development, psychometric validation, and suggestions for use of the DA. An 11-city study of intimate partner femicide used multivariate analysis to test the…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Predictive Validity, At Risk Persons