Intimate partner violence (IPV) and stalking is a pervasive societal problem violating human rights, where every third woman reports being victimized. Such violence causes a major strain on both victims and society, where resources provided to reduce violence show low effect since both rates of prevalence and recidivism remains high and quality of life remains low for victims and their children, specifically in rural areas. The work to prevent such violence needs effective risk management, which currently is not the case.
The risk management conducted by social services in collaboration with the police is problematic since it is done from different perspectives in an unstructured way. The RiskSam is a structured risk management model developed to improve collaboration within and between agencies. The RiskSam provides the link between risk assessment and risk management.
The overall aim of this longitudinal research program (2019-2025) is to improve and implement a sustainable and evidence-based model, the RiskSam, within the Swedish social services, and to evaluate the effects of working with the model in terms of violence reduction, cost-effective collaboration with the police, and quality of life for victims, in cases of IPV and stalking with both a rural and child perspective. A theoretical development of theory based on the Risk-Need-Responsivity principle will be conducted.
The research program consists of a mixed method design divided into several sub-projects. In this symposium findings from four of them will be presented and discussed.
Strand, Susanne(1) Petersson, Joakim(1) Källström, Åsa(1) Larsson, Anna-Karin(1) Vikander, Martina(2) (1) Örebro University (2) School pf Behavioral, Social and Legal Sciences, Örebro University
2025.
European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV 2025), Barcelona, Spain, September 3-5, 2025