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040 _aAFVC
100 _aJolliffe Simpson, Apriel D.
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245 _aUnpacking multiagency structured professional judgment risk assessments for family violence
_cApriel D. Jolliffe Simpson, Chaitanya Joshi and Devon L.L. Polaschek
260 _bSage,
_c2023
500 _aJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023, First published online, 29 January 2023
520 _aAssessing the risk for future harm is a crucial task for agencies managing Family Violence (FV) cases. The Integrated Safety Response (ISR) is a multiagency collaboration of such agencies operating in two areas of New Zealand, and one of the first steps in their process is to perform a risk assessment. However, in these assessments, it is unclear whether the factors ISR triage team members select are the basis for their overall risk categorization (low, medium, or high), and if those factors are risk factors (i.e., empirical predictors of outcomes). Therefore, in this study we documented the factors ISR triage teams recorded during their risk assessments for 842 FV cases and examined the relationship of those factors with the risk categories. We then investigated whether those factors and the risk categories were indeed capable of predicting FV-related outcomes (recurrence and physical recurrence). We found most of the triage teams’ recorded factors were associated with the risk categories, but fewer than half of the factors were associated with FV-related outcomes. Moreover, the risk categories predicted FV-related outcomes better than chance, but their predictive ability varied across subgroups, performing poorly for aggressors who were Māori or women, and for non-intimate partner cases. We concluded that the ISR triage teams’ risk assessment protocol may benefit from increased structure and validation. (Authors' abstract). Record #7991
650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aFAMILY VIOLENCE
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650 0 _96856
_aIntegrated Safety Response
650 _aINTERVENTION
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aPERPETRATORS
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650 4 _9439
_aPHYSICAL ABUSE
650 _aRESEARCH METHODS
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650 _aRISK ASSESSMENT
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651 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aJoshi, Chaitanya
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700 _91925
_aPolaschek, Devon L. L.
773 0 _tJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023, First published online, 29 January 2023
830 _aJournal of Interpersonal Violence
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856 _zDOI: 10.1177/08862605221147069
_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221147069
942 _2ddc
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