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Policing family violence in rural areas
Örebro University, School of Law, Psychology and Social Work. (Center for Criminological and Psychosocial Research)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9397-8304
Örebro University, School of Law, Psychology and Social Work. Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. (Center for Criminological and Psychosocial Research)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8285-0935
2017 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This presentation will describe the primary results of a prospective research project spanning over eight years (2009-2016), introducing a structured approach to policing family violence. This research project was funded by the Swedish Crime Victim Support and Compensation Authority. The aim of the research project was to implement and evaluate the use of structured professional judgments tool of assessing violence for risk. More specifically, risk assessment checklists for intimate partner violence, stalking, and honor related violence was introduced as a working method within the two Swedish police districts of Jämtland and Västernorrland. The first phase of the project constituted of the implementation of the risk assessment checklists. This involved training the police in how to use the checklists. The second phase of the project constituted of data collection and evaluation. Thus, risk assessments performed between 2011 and 2014 for all police-reported cases of intimate partner violence, stalking, and honor related violence in the two police districts were collected. Furthermore, risk management strategies recommended by the police, in order to prevent future violence, were evaluated. Additionally, qualitative interviews with police and district attorneys were conducted. The results demonstrated that the use of structured violence risk assessment checklists works well within the Swedish police to reduce the risk for violence by suggesting proper risk management. However, the results demonstrated that there was no existing routine for documenting the risk management strategies, making follow up evaluation of their efficacy difficult. Finally, an overall presentation of the research papers produced, based on the results of this project, will be given.

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2017.
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Other Social Sciences Psychology
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Criminology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-59346OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-59346DiVA, id: diva2:1135839
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The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 19-21, 2017
Available from: 2017-08-24 Created: 2017-08-24 Last updated: 2019-03-27Bibliographically approved

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