1. Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Stephen D. Hart, PhD

2. Risk Assessment

3. Goals Prevent IPV Guide risk management and safety planning Maximize professional accountability Improve transparency and consistency of decisions Legal protection Constitutional rights and professional liability

4. Perpetrator-Focused Assessment

6. Theoretical Framework  IPV is the result of a decision  Most decisions are not to commit IPV Decisions are: Goal-directed Planful Decisions are not: Conscious Rational

7. Thinking About IPV Viable response optionPotential reward or benefitAcceptable costFeasible

8. Influences on Decisions Social Psychological Biological Child rearing experiences Social norms Personality Mental disorder Neurological impairment Hormonal abnormality

9. Nature of Risk Factors  Risk factors influence decisions about IPV Motivate DisinhibitDestabilize

10. SPJ  Structured professional judgment approach relies on guidelines to structure discretion Reflect best practice Specify basic risk factors Don’t restrict scope No scoring rules Prevention- oriented Good for monitoring change

11. Function of SPJ Guidelines Reference texts Aides mémoire Best practice guidelines Practice standards SPJ

12. SPJ Guidelines DVSISARA B- SAFER

13. The B-SAFER

14. Uses and Users For use with (alleged) perpetrators Adults, > 18 yrs At any stage of legal proceedings Pre-arrest, -trial, -sentence; pre- and post- release For use by criminal justice professionals With basic expertise in assessment and IPV

15. Administration Step 1 Case information Step 2 Presence of risk factors Step 3 Management strategies Step 4 Conclusory opinions

16. Step 1 Identify and gather information reasonably necessary for assessment Document information reviewed and any important missing information