1. Identifying and Assessing Risk Dr Jane Monckton Smith

2. Domestic homicide risk triad Abuser psychology Trigger High risk markers

3. Abuser psychology Has a history of abuse in this or any other relationship Shows repetitive, obsessive, or compulsive behaviours Desire to control the life of their partner or focus for the abuse Inability to accept challenge Not acting in their own best interests

4. Mental Illness Same high risk markers are often observable: Threats to kill or commit suicide Excessive jealousy Obsessive, repetitive or compulsive thoughts or behaviours Excessive focus on the victim (could be mother, father, wife…) Fear of abandonment Irrational thoughts about the victim

6. High risk markers

7. Threats to kill or commit suicide Victim is fearful Use of violence including sexual violence Coercive control Violence escalating in intensity or frequency Stalking Surveillance Excessive jealousy Violence which directly threatens life eg. Strangulation, choking, drowning, suffocation, stabbing, shooting

8. Coercive control Is a course of conduct designed to limit the freedoms and choices of the victim Control is often maintained through fear of the consequences of taking independent action Violence is only one form of control

10. Triggers

11. Estrangement – actual, planned or imagined Financial or business crisis Loss of control of the focus for abuse

12. Domestic homicide risk triad Abuser psychology Trigger High risk markers