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North American research shows that interventions and their type, appropriateness, timing, and patterning may help explain variations in the relationship between estrangement and intimate femicide on one hand and reintegration or conciliation on the other. The main objective of this article is to build on Wilson and Daly's male proprietariness thesis by integrating it with a theory of interventions.

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The primary objective of this article is to describe DOVE, a 19-item instrument designed to assess and manage the risk of domestic violence between partners during and following their participation in divorce mediation. Assessing risk, more specifically how DOVE can be used to assess risk, is described first. The resulting risk scores (TOTDOVE) are used to assign individuals to risk categories. Problems associated with using categorical, frequency, and probability risk assessment formats in interpreting and communicating risk are discussed in the second segment of the article. A dual, categorical/probability format is advocated. Managing risk using Safety Plan interventions that are linked with risk category and predictor subscores on control, substance abuse, anger, relationship problems, mental health problems, and conflict is covered in the final segment.

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This article reports on a study designed to investigate the ejects of preseparation hassles, preseparation abuse, and evaluations of the mediation process on postmediation abuse and hassles among a stratijied, random, sequential sample of participants in marital conjlict mediation. Hassles prior to mediation were found to be associated with postmediation hassles. Engaging in violence-prevention activities prior to separation and being fiightened of one's partner were associated with postseparation abuse. Evaluations of the mediation process were associated with postseparation abuse and only among those who participated in mandatory legal aid mediation. The authors discuss the implication of these findings for the construction of a screening instrument for mediation participants.

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