Findings from Australian Homicide Project released

Findings from the Australian Homicide Project have been released. This is the first major study of intimate partner homicide in Australia. Based on interviews with over 200 homicide offenders in custodial and community corrections, its objectives are to:

• Examine individual, social and situational factors related to intimate partner homicide (IPH)
• Apply and extend theoretical models for understanding and explaining IPH
• Uncover factors, events or circumstances associated with an escalation of risks for IPH
• Examine the developmental pathways linking intimate partner violence and IPH
• Examine gender differences in IPH perpetration
• Examine the further potential of police and social welfare agencies in assessing escalation of risks prior to the occurrence of fatal incidents
• Examine differences in IPH and non-IPH offenders

Interviews are expected to be completed by December 2012 after which detailed analysis of the data will begin.

A further expansion of the project is the examination of data in the National Coroners’ Information Service database.

Click here for more information about the project

Click here for the presentation on the project at the Intimate Partner Violence and Homicide Symposium, Brisbane, 3 May 2012

Click here for Research pinpoints risks for spousal murder, Brisbane Times, 5 May 2012