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Community-Informed Risk Assessment in Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Cases: Origins, Development, and Deployment

Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

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Community-informed risk assessment (CIRA) emerged in Arizona and a number of communities in the United States, in part as a way of addressing some of the problems with extant risk models in intimate partner violence and abuse (IPV/A) cases. The chapter identifies the origins, development, and deployment of CIRA approaches. It commences by noting the social harms associated with IPV/A and intimate partner homicide (IPH) and their complex case dynamics. These harms and dynamics call for nuanced risk triaging and management, humane interactions with victims and offenders, and the prudent and efficient deployment of often scarce resources. The chapter explains notions of “risk,” “risk assessment,” and “CIRA,” tracing the origins of the CIRA concept to the state of Arizona and its extant and evolving coordinated community responses to IPV/A. It then examines the pivotal relationship between CIRA and the rule of law. The relationship helped facilitate the spread of CIRA from pilot sites to the state as a whole and subsequently to other states. Finally, the contribution concludes with a summary of the early outcomes of CIRA and the challenges associated with assessing risk in IPV/A cases.

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  1. Family Violence Center, School of Social Work, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Neil Websdale

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  1. Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Robert Geffner

  2. School of Health and Human Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensbo, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Jacquelyn W. White

  3. Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    L. Kevin Hamberger

  4. Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

    Alan Rosenbaum

  5. Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Viola Vaughan-Eden

  6. Education and Research, Zero Abuse Project, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Victor I. Vieth

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    Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling

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    Glenna Tinney

  3. College of Arts and Sciences - Society, Culture, and Language, University of South Florida - St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

    Shelly M. Wagers

  4. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    L. Kevin Hamberger

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    Alan Rosenbaum

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Websdale, N. (2020). Community-Informed Risk Assessment in Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Cases: Origins, Development, and Deployment. In: Geffner, R., White, J.W., Hamberger, L.K., Rosenbaum, A., Vaughan-Eden, V., Vieth, V.I. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62122-7_324-2

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