Homicide Reduction
Resource Center

Homicide Reduction Resource Center

Homicide Reduction Resource Center

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Overview

The Florida Department of Children and Families Domestic Violence Homicide Reduction Resource Center provides multi-disciplinary and up-to-date, evidence-based information, education materials, online training, and additional resources regarding domestic violence homicide risk indicators and guiding practices for advocates, criminal justice partners, and medical professionals responding to these crimes.

General Resources

Risk Assessments

Resources for Providers

Homicide Statistics

Florida Statutes

Domestic Violence

 Fatality Review

Research Articles

  • Messing, J. T., AbiNader, M., Bent-Goodley, T., & Campbell, J. (2022). Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide: The Long Road Ahead. Homicide Studies, 26(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/10887679211048492
  • Jill Theresa Messing, Yvonne Amanor-Boadu, Courtenay E. Cavanaugh, Nancy E. Glass, Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Culturally Competent Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment: Adapting the Danger Assessment for Immigrant Women, Social Work Research, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 263–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svt019
  • Koppa V, Messing JT. Can Justice System Interventions Prevent Intimate Partner Homicide? An Analysis of Rates of Help Seeking Prior to Fatality. J Interpers Violence. 2021 Sep;36(17-18):8792-8816. doi: 10.1177/0886260519851179. Epub 2019 Jun 4. PMID: 31161856. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31161856/
  • Gold. L. (2020) Domestic Violence, Firearms, and Mass Shootings .Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online February 2020, JAAPL.003929-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.003929-20
  • Websdale, N., Ferraro, K. & Barger, S.D. The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms. Inj. Epidemiol. 6, 6 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-019-0182-2

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