WARNING:
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The Florida Department of Children and Families Domestic Violence Homicide Reduction Resource Center provides multi-disciplinary and up-to-date, evidence-based information, education materials, online training, and additional resources regarding domestic violence homicide risk indicators and guiding practices for advocates, criminal justice partners, and medical professionals responding to these crimes.
General Resources
- Media Guide
https://www.janedoe.org - Office of State Courts Administrator's Resource Links
https://www.flcourts.gov - United Nations
https://www.unodc.org - Canada
http://www.cdhpi.ca/
Risk Assessments
- Offender Deterrence
https://www.innovatingjustice.org - Danger Assessment
https://www.dangerassessment.org/
Resources for Providers
- Florida Certified Domestic Violence Centers
Find Your Local Domestic Violence Center - Batterer Intervention Programs
Find a Local Batterers Intervention Program
Homicide Statistics
- Florida Statistics
Report - National Statistics
https://bjs.ojp.gov
Florida Statutes
Domestic Violence
- Section 741.28, Florida Statutes, Defines Domestic Violence
- Section 741.30, Florida Statutes, Domestic Violence Injunction
- Section 784.041, Florida Statutes, Domestic Battery by Strangulation
- Section 741.281, Florida Statutes, Batterer Intervention Programs
Fatality Review
Research Articles
- Messing, J. T., AbiNader, M., Bent-Goodley, T., & Campbell, J. (2022). Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide: The Long Road Ahead. Homicide Studies, 26(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/10887679211048492
- Jill Theresa Messing, Yvonne Amanor-Boadu, Courtenay E. Cavanaugh, Nancy E. Glass, Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Culturally Competent Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment: Adapting the Danger Assessment for Immigrant Women, Social Work Research, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 263–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svt019
- Koppa V, Messing JT. Can Justice System Interventions Prevent Intimate Partner Homicide? An Analysis of Rates of Help Seeking Prior to Fatality. J Interpers Violence. 2021 Sep;36(17-18):8792-8816. doi: 10.1177/0886260519851179. Epub 2019 Jun 4. PMID: 31161856. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31161856/
- Gold. L. (2020) Domestic Violence, Firearms, and Mass Shootings .Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online February 2020, JAAPL.003929-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.003929-20
- Websdale, N., Ferraro, K. & Barger, S.D. The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms. Inj. Epidemiol. 6, 6 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-019-0182-2
Related Websites
- https://stopgrants.org/stop_site_v3/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Domestic-Violence-Homicide-Reduction-Resources-4.pdf
- https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/index.html
- https://jeannegeigercrisiscenter.org/domestic-violence-homicide-prevention/
- https://geigerinstitute.org/
- https://dvrisc.org/domestic-violence-homicide-prevention-tools-strategies-assessments/
- https://www.nrcdv.org/
- https://nnedv.org/content/domestic-violence-homicides/
- HOME - National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (ndvfri.org)
- https://gunresponsibility.org/solution/domestic-violence-prevention/
- https://www.strangulationtraininginstitute.com/
- https://www.stalkingawareness.org/
Training Links
- Office of State Courts Administrator's Training
- https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Office-of-Family-Courts/Family-Court-in-Florida/Domestic-Violence/DV-Training/External-Training-Modules
- https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Office-of-Family-Courts/Family-Court-in-Florida/E-Learning-Training-Modules
- https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Office-of-Family-Courts/Family-Court-in-Florida/Domestic-Violence/DV-Training/Advanced-Domestic-Violence-Studies-for-Judges
- https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Office-of-Family-Courts/Family-Court-in-Florida/Domestic-Violence/DV-Training/Lunch-and-Learn-Curricula
- Florida Partnership to End Domestic Violence Training
https://www.fpedv.org/ - Florida Domestic Violence Collaborative Training
https://www.fldvtraining.org/