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Assessing violence risk among female IPV perpetrators: An examination of the B-SAFER
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Social Sciences, Section for Criminology, Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden.
Department of Social Sciences, Section for Criminology, and Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden. (Center for Criminological and Psychosocial Research)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8285-0935
2013 (English)In: Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, ISSN 1092-6771, E-ISSN 1545-083X, Vol. 22, no 9, p. 964-980Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global problem and one in which frontline assessment and management falls primarily to police. Although IPV is often conceptualized as a male-perpetrated crime, evidence substantiates female IPV perpetration and increased arrest rates, raising important issues for police. This article examines police use of the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER; Kropp, Hart, & Belfrage, 2005, 2010), a violence risk assessment tool for IPV. The B-SAFER was used to assess and manage 52 women arrested for IPV. When compared to Belfrage and Strand (2008), who examined men arrested for IPV in the same sample, women possessed fewer risk factors. Risk factors were related to summary risk judgments, although differences existed between genders and risk judgments were not related to management recommendations. Results suggest that risk factors, in addition to those in the B-SAFER, are required to assess risk for female IPV.

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Routledge, 2013. Vol. 22, no 9, p. 964-980
Keywords [en]
B-SAFER; female perpetrators; intimate partner violence; police; violence risk assessment; violence risk management
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Psychology Law and Society Psychiatry
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Criminology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-53971DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2013.835015ISI: 000209303900003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84888625133OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-53971DiVA, id: diva2:1056307
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Mid-Sweden University

Swedish national police

Available from: 2016-12-14 Created: 2016-12-14 Last updated: 2018-09-12Bibliographically approved

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