Policing repeat and high-risk family violence: police and service-sector perceptions of a coordinated model

Intimate Partner Violence and Other Associated Problems: Sectoral Cooperation to Optimize the Safety of Women and Children

“…The results of this study made it possible to identify certain fundamental needs in interventions with complex IPV cases. This finding was consistent with various articles recommending more cooperation between organizations and institutions in co-occurrence cases (Bromfield et al, 2010;Dumont, 2018;Hamilton et al, 2021;Laing et al, 2018;Lessard et al, 2014;Mason & DuMont, 2015;Mason et al, 2017;O'Leary et al, 2018;Stewart, 2020;Stylianou & Ebright, 2021). In each cooperation meeting, numerous possible avenues were identified for improving the victims' safety and enhancing practices in all of the regions' participating organizations.…”

“…As several authors have noted (Bauer et al, 2013;Bourassa et al, 2008;Bromfield et al, 2010;Cleaver et al, 2011;Holmes, 2013;Humphreys et al, 2005;Stover et al, 2013), the co-occurrence of IPV with other problems can accentuate the severity of the victims' consequences. This is why sectoral cooperation is being recommended to discuss these issues and implement a safety net for women and children victims in situations where IPV co-occurs with MT, MHP or AP (Hamilton et al, 2021;O'Leary et al, 2018;Stewart, 2020;Stylianou & Ebright, 2021). This would allow the different services to combine their strengths in responding, for example, to the needs of children who are no longer exposed to IPV but who still need emotional support to help them deal with the effects of violence (Zannettino & McLaren, 2014).…”

“…This measure has moreover been included in the most recent Quebec's Government IPV action plan (2018). The managers of these organizations must also assume leadership to enable practitioners to collaborate with other organizations, providing enough time and resources (Hamilton et al, 2021;O'Leary et al, 2018). As concerns the strategies for data collection and analyses, we considered it was an effective strategy to have chosen a mixed methodology with both quantitative indicators (to determine the degree to which each specific objective was reached) and qualitative (to help us interpret the meaning of the quantitative results and further their analysis).…”

Australian police perceptions of women’s police stations

“…Yet less than a third of women who have experienced violence from a current or former partner have reported it to the police (ABS 2017a). For Indigenous women the Police units supported by multidisciplinary workers may enhance the secondary and tertiary prevention of DFV (Amaral et al 2018;Carrington et al 2020;Hamilton et al 2021;Hautzinger 2007;Mundy and Seuffert 2021). Yet, most research on policing DFV and how violence prevention might work has come from studies of services in large cities of the Global North (Arango et al 2014;Walklate and Fitz-Gibbon 2018).…”

Risk Refraction: Thoughts on the Victim-Survivor’s Risk Journey through the Criminal Justice Process

“…This is often compounded by differing understandings of risk across and within the community of agencies charged with deciding what is actionable and achievable in relation to a particular case, as seen in Hester's (2011) three planet model. Moreover, while multi-agency responses have been central to improving assistance to women living with violence (Robinson 2006), recent work has criticised this approach for its focus on high-risk victims (Myhill and Hohl 2016), with Hamilton et al (2019) pointing to some of the specific consequences of this. When added to the questionable ability of agencies when engaging in meaningful and effective information sharing (Stanley and Humphreys 2014) and using the same language (Walby et al 2017), the ineffectiveness of inter-agency working is often tellingly revealed in the outcomes documented by Domestic Homicide Reviews (Dawson 2017).…”