Dashing Hopes? the Predictive Accuracy of Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment by Police
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Turner (0000-0003-1302-3589, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Juanjo Medina (0000-0003-4407-8830, University of Manchester), Gavin Brown (0000-0003-2555-4192, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1013-1034 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azy074 |
| OpenAlex | W2907935345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 40 |
The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH) form is a standardized risk assessment implemented across most UK police forces. It is intended to facilitate an officer’s structured professional judgment about the risk a victim faces of serious harm at the hand of their abuser. Until now, it has been an open question whether this tool works in practice. Here, we present the largest scale European study, making the case that the risk assessment tool is underperforming. Each element of the DASH questionnaire is, at best, weakly predictive of revictimization. Officer risk predictions based on DASH are little better than random and a logistic regression model that predicts the same outcome using DASH only provides modest improvement in performance
Computer security · Criminology · Dash · Logistic regression · Officer · Political science · Predictive validity · Risk assessment · Stalking · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology
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Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes
Algorithmic policing accountability
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Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence
Implementing evidence-based practice in policing family violence
Safety, privacy, or both
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The looming risk of under- and over-protection
Secondary victimisation through data protection
Partner violence surrounding divorce
Domestic violence and abuse in local child safeguarding policy
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Applied Predictive Modeling
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Regularization and Variable Selection Via the Elastic Net
Predictions put into practice
Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle
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Exploration of the risk factors contained within the UK’s existing domestic abuse risk assessment tool (Dash)
Practitioner (mis)understandings of coercive control in England and Wales
A small constellation
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Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |