Beyond intimate partner relationships: utilising domestic homicide reviews to prevent adult family domestic homicide

Bracewell, Kelly, Jones, Cassandra, Haines-Delmont, Alina, Craig, Elaine, Duxbury, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1772-6874 and Chantler, Khatidja (2022) Beyond intimate partner relationships: utilising domestic homicide reviews to prevent adult family domestic homicide. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 6 (3). pp. 535-550.

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Abstract

Increasing evidence documents domestic violence and abuse (DVA) and domestic homicide of adults killed by a relative in non-intimate partner relationships. Most literature focuses on intimate partner violence and homicide, yet non-intimate partner homicides form a substantial but neglected minority of domestic homicides. This article addresses this gap by presenting an analysis from 66 domestic homicide reviews (DHRs) in England and Wales where the victim and perpetrator were related, such as parent and adult child. Intimate partner homicides are excluded. These 66 DHRs were a sub-sample drawn from a larger study examining 317 DHRs in England and Wales. The article contributes towards greater understanding of the prevalence, context and characteristics of adult family homicide (AFH). Analysis revealed five interlinked precursors to AFH: mental health and substance/alcohol misuse, criminal history, childhood trauma, economic factors and care dynamics. Findings indicate that, given their contact with both victims and perpetrators, criminal justice agencies, adult social care and health agencies, particularly mental health services, are ideally placed to identify important risk and contextual factors. Understanding of DVA needs to extend to include adult family violence. Risk assessments need to be cognisant of the complex dynamics of AFH and must consider social-structural and relational-contextual factors.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
ISSN:	2398-6808
Departments:	Institute of Health > Nursing
Additional Information:	Joy Duxbury, Professor of Mental Health and Director of Research for the Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria, UK. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits adaptation, alteration, reproduction and distribution without further permission provided the original work is attributed.
Depositing User:	Joy Duxbury
Date Deposited:	07 Oct 2024 09:23
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2024 09:30
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8437

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