Nonfatal Strangulation During Domestic Violence Events in New South Wales: Prevalence and Characteristics Using Text Mining Study of Police Narratives

Wilson, Mandy; Spike, Erin A; Karystianis, George; Butler, Tony

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“…Improved training and awareness from attending police officers can assist in the recording of key details of those involved in a domestic violence event beyond routine demographic and spatio-temporal characteristics and potentially capture information for at-risk sub-populations. Examples of this include reports of mental illness in perpetrators and victims, observed injuries not requiring hospitalization, threats, trends in specific abuse types such as non-fatal strangulation and frequency of abuse within a particular setting such as nursing homes (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21).…”

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“…We recently demonstrated the successful application of text mining to a large corpus of police domestic violence event narratives to identify mentions of mental illness, abuse type(s), and victim injuries ( 16 , 17 ). We also demonstrated that the extracted information can be used to provide insights into domestic violence and mental illness ( 18 ) and in the context specific diagnoses (i.e., autism) ( 19 ), the setting (i.e., nursing homes) ( 20 ), and abuse type (i.e., non-fatal strangulation) ( 21 ).…”

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Surveillance of Domestic Violence Using Text Mining Outputs From Australian Police Records

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In Australia, domestic violence reports are mostly based on data from the police, courts, hospitals, and ad hoc surveys. However, gaps exist in reporting information such as victim injuries, mental health status and abuse types. The police record details of domestic violence events as structured information (e.g., gender, postcode, ethnicity), but also in text narratives describing other details such as injuries, substance use, and mental health status. However, the voluminous nature of the narratives has prevented their use for surveillance purposes. We used a validated text mining methodology on 492,393 police-attended domestic violence event narratives from 2005 to 2016 to extract mental health mentions on persons of interest (POIs) (individuals suspected/charged with a domestic violence offense) and victims, abuse types, and victim injuries. A significant increase was observed in events that recorded an injury type (28.3% in 2005 to 35.6% in 2016). The pattern of injury and abuse types differed between male and female victims with male victims more likely to be punched and to experience cuts and bleeding and female victims more likely to be grabbed and pushed and have bruises. The four most common mental illnesses (alcohol abuse, bipolar disorder, depression schizophrenia) were the same in male and female POIs. An increase from 5.0% in 2005 to 24.3% in 2016 was observed in the proportion of events with a reported mental illness with an increase between 2005 and 2016 in depression among female victims. These findings demonstrate that extracting information from police narratives can provide novel insights into domestic violence patterns including confounding factors (e.g., mental illness) and thus enable policy responses to address this significant public health problem.

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“…These text records enable identification of the characteristics of domestic violence perpetrators (hereafter referred to as Persons of Interest (POIs) i.e., individuals involved in an event that have been accused or charged for perpetrating DV related crimes) that can inform further research, clinical screening, and interventions. Police records enable characteristics of DV events to be described ( 19 ) based on the setting (e.g., nursing homes) ( 21 ), specific mental health conditions (e.g., autism) ( 22 ) and abuse types (e.g., non-fatal strangulation, coercive control) ( 23 , 24 ), and population sub-groups ( 25 ).…”

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Characteristics of domestic violence perpetrators with dementia from police records using text mining

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AimFew studies have examined the characteristics of domestic violence (DV) committed by people with dementia. We provide an overview of DV perpetrated by people with dementia in the community based on police reports of attendances at DV events.MethodA text mining method was used on 416,441 New South Wales (NSW) police narratives of DV events from January 2005 to December 2016 to extract information for Persons of Interest (POIs) with mentions of dementia.ResultsEvents involving those with dementia accounted for a relatively low proportion of total DV events (<1%). Of the 260 DV events with a dementia mention for the POI, the most common abuse types were assault (49.7%) and verbal abuse (31.6%). Spouses were the largest group of victims (50.8%) followed by children (8.8%). Physical abuse was common, occurring in 82.4% of events, but injuries were relatively mild. Although weapons were infrequently used, they were involved in 5% of events, mostly by POIs aged 75 years and older. Similarly, the POIs were mainly aged 75+ years (60%), however the proportion of those aged <65 was relatively high (20.8%) compared to the reported prevalence of dementia in that age group.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that some cases of DV perpetrated by people with reported dementia are significant enough to warrant police involvement. This highlights the need to proactively discuss the potential for violence as part of the holistic management and support family members, particularly those caring for people with young-onset dementias.

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“…Recent studies using police data provide demographic information on strangulation within IPV. Wilson, Spike, Karystianis, and Butler (2021) analysed 6,955 Australian-based police records of IPV-related strangulation finding 91.7% of reports noting the perpetrator as male and the victim-survivor as the female, female perpetrator and male victim-survivor in 4.7% of reports, male same-sex couples in 2.5% and female same-sex in 1.1% of cases. Analysing American-based police reports of IPV-related strangulation Messing, Thomas, Ward-Lasher, and Brewer (2021) report similar demographic distribution across different-sex couples, female same-sex and male same-sex couples.…”

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“…Other researchers have reported on the diverse range of precipitating events to strangulation, including; emotionally charged arguments, underlying relationship stressors, jealousy, accusations of infidelity, the victim-survivor attempting to end the relationship, substance and alcohol misuse, and the victim-survivor's perceived non-compliance (Bendlin & Sheridan, 2019;Brady et al, 2022;Nemeth, Bonomi, Lee, & Ludwin, 2012;Reckdenwald, Fernandez & Mandes, 2019;Thomas, Joshi, & Sorenson, 2014;Wilbur et al, 2001;Wilson et al, 2021). Notably, as described by Thomas et al (2014), 'mundane demands', such as dinner not being ready or buying the wrong brand of cigarettes, were also described as catalysts for the perpetrator to strangle the research participants.…”

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Surviving Strangulation: A Critical Literature Review of the Consequences from a Psychological Perspective

2024

Psychology Applications &Amp; Developments IX

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This critical review examines the literature on strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence, discussing in particular the neuropsychological and psychological consequences that have been associated with strangulation. Neuropsychological outcomes of strangulation have been predominantly derived from medical or forensic data and detail loss of consciousness, headaches, dizziness and memory loss as common consequences. Yet to be explored is the compounding effect of multiple instances of strangulation may have neuropsychologically, despite this being thought as a common experience to victim-survivors who have disclosed being strangled. PTSD and depression have been noted by researchers as a likely consequence of strangulation, however, the psychological consequences beyond diagnostic criteria are an area for further exploration. While informative, existing research has not yet examined how these consequences impact victim-survivors of strangulation within intimate partner violence. Having a more nuanced understanding of how strangulation impacts victim-survivors is imperative to tailoring support services to best meet their needs and this critical review concludes by highlighting key areas for future research.

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Nonfatal Strangulation During Domestic Violence Events in New South Wales: Prevalence and Characteristics Using Text Mining Study of Police Narratives

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Surveillance of Domestic Violence Using Text Mining Outputs From Australian Police Records

Surveillance of Domestic Violence Using Text Mining Outputs From Australian Police Records

Characteristics of domestic violence perpetrators with dementia from police records using text mining

Surviving Strangulation: A Critical Literature Review of the Consequences from a Psychological Perspective

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