"This practical guide to policing domestic violence offers advice on core practice areas, including investigative techniques, risk identification, assessment and management, multi-agency domestic homicide reviews and information-sharing. Approaches to help identify victims early and target offenders through the effective use of intelligence are set out along with helpful case studies and checklists." "This book provides information on all the practical measures which should be employed to protect victims and their children and hold offenders to account. The impact of domestic violence on children and other witnesses is also discussed, and the powers available to police under new legislation including the Domestic Violence Crimes and Victims Act 2004 are outlined. This book is an essential resource for all practitioners working in the field of domestic violence in the UK."--BOOK JACKET.

Laura Richards is Consultant Violence Adviser to ACPO and prior to this was head of the Homicide Prevention Unit at the Metropolitan Police, specialising in domestic abuse cases. She has a PHD in risk, intelligence and behavioural analysis and a degree in forensic psychology. Simon Letchford is a Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police. He oversees London's 32 specialist domestic violence units and is also Deputy Chair of ACPO's Domestic Violence Steering Group. Sharon Stratton is a Detective Sergeant at the Metropolitan Police. She has extensive operational experience in investigating domestic violence cases and regularly trains front-line staff on domestic abuse investigations.

Abbreviations	p. xv
Table of Cases	p. xix
Table of Legislation	p. xxi
Tables and Figures	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004	p. 2
Multi-Agency Response	p. 3
Aims of this Book	p. 4
Summary	p. 6
Putting Domestic Violence into Context	p. 9
Introduction	p. 10
'Just a Domestic'?	p. 10
What is Domestic Violence?	p. 11
Who Commits Domestic Violence?	p. 14
Different Forms of Domestic Abuse	p. 14
How Serious is the Problem of Domestic Violence?	p. 16
Why Do Victims Call the Police?	p. 16
Positive Action and Arrest	p. 18
Ten Myths and Stereotypes about Domestic Violence	p. 19
Use of Advertising to Raise Awareness	p. 23
Effective Implementation-Measuring Success	p. 25
An Intelligence-Led Approach	p. 27
Introduction	p. 28
What is Crime Analysis?	p. 29
Understanding the Context of Domestic Violence	p. 30
Domestic Violence and the National Intelligence Model (NIM)	p. 32
Domestic-Violence Analysis	p. 34
Effective Investigation	p. 61
Introduction	p. 62
Putting the Offender at the Centre of the Investigation	p. 63
Initial Reporting-'First Time, Right Time'	p. 65
Attending the Scene	p. 70
Dealing with the Victim	p. 72
Dealing with Witnesses	p. 78
Dealing with the Suspect	p. 79
Powers of Arrest	p. 79
Obtaining Best Evidence	p. 85
Conducting Interviews with Suspects	p. 87
Prosecution of Cases	p. 91
Specialist Domestic Violence Courts (SDVC)	p. 104
Completion of Crime and Intelligence Reports	p. 105
Risk Identification, Assessment, and Management	p. 107
Introduction	p. 108
What Positive Obligations are Imposed on Investigators?	p. 108
Benefits of Good Risk Assessment	p. 109
Risk Identification, Assessment, and Management	p. 111
The Risk-Assessment Models Available for Police Staff and Officers to Use	p. 114
The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment, and Honour-Based Violence Risk Model (DASH, 2008)	p. 119
MARACs and the Non Police Risk Identification Checklist	p. 168
Common-Risk Framework	p. 177
Children and Domestic Violence	p. 181
Introduction	p. 182
Effective Police Responses to Domestic-Violence Cases Affecting Children	p. 184
Considerations when Investigating Cases of Domestic Violence where Children are Affected	p. 187
Risk Identification/Management and the Needs of the Children	p. 194
How Agencies can Work Together to Ensure Children's Safety	p. 197
Serious-Case Reviews and Domestic-Violence Homicide Review	p. 199
Missing Persons Cases and Children	p. 199
Honour-Based Violence (HBV)	p. 201
Introduction	p. 202
What is Honour-Based Violence (HBV)?	p. 202
Forms of HBV	p. 203
How Prevalent is HBV?	p. 215
The Role of the Police	p. 218
Risk Identification, Assessment, and Management of Cases	p. 224
Partnerships with other Agencies and Organizations	p. 231
Tactical Menu of Intervention Options for Victims and Offenders	p. 233
Domestic-Homicide Reviews	p. 245
Introduction	p. 246
What is a Domestic-Homicide Review?	p. 246
Scope of the Review	p. 250
Conducting the Review within Each Agency and Identifying Lessons to be Learnt	p. 252
What the Report Should Look Like	p. 253
What Happens with the Findings	p. 264
Implications for Disclosure	p. 264
Findings from Domestic-Homicide Reviews in London	p. 266
Effectiveness of Reviews	p. 268
Information-Sharing	p. 271
Introduction	p. 272
Why Share Information?	p. 272
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1998 and Information-Sharing	p. 273
Implications of the Data Protection Act 1998	p. 275
Does the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 allow for the Sharing of Information?	p. 279
Common-Law Powers concerning Confidentiality and Disclosure	p. 279
Sharing Information with Consent of the Victim	p. 280
Sharing Information relating to Children at Risk or Witnessing Domestic Violence	p. 281
Guidance on the Management of Police Information	p. 281
Checklist for Lawful Information-Sharing	p. 282
Civil Law and Other Protective Measures	p. 287
Introduction	p. 288
Family Law Civil Injunctions	p. 288
Restraining Orders and Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs)	p. 290
Civil Orders under the Sexual Offences Act 2003	p. 291
Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007	p. 292
Extended and Indeterminate Public Protection Sentence	p. 292
Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP)	p. 292
Orders in Relation to Children	p. 293
Sanctuary Scheme	p. 295
Alarms and Mobile Phones	p. 296
Neighbourhood Policing and Cocoon Watch	p. 296
Safety Plans	p. 297
Specialist Refuge Service Providers and Emergency Accommodation	p. 299
Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVA)	p. 300
Domestic-Violence Support Agencies	p. 301
Domestic Violence and the Immigration Rule	p. 303
Appendices
Risk: Considerations of risk for victims	p. 305
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Police and Justice Act 2006: Exchange of Personal Information	p. 307
SOCPA 2005 s 110: Reminder of general powers for arrest	p. 310
Human Rights Act 1998	p. 312
Criminal Justice Act 2003-hearsay-cases where witness unavailable	p. 314
Special Schemes Topics	p. 316
References and Websites	p. 317
Index	p. 327
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