Abstract: When an Alaska Airlines flight recently plunged into the Pacific Ocean killing all 88 people on board there was a hue-and-cry about aviation safety. Planes were grounded and inspected and millions of dollars spent investigating what went wrong. Each year in the United States, male intimates kill anywhere from a 1000 to 1600 female partners. Women kill several hundred intimate male partners each year, usually after experiencing a long history of domestic violence. However, it is only recently that the federal government and some individual states have begun to explore the reasons for these deaths in a systematic manner. Domestic violence fatality review refers to the deliberative process for identification of deaths, both homicide and suicide, caused by domestic violence. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in adult domestic violence death reviews, notes those types of deaths typically subject to review, and explores some of the implications of our increasing knowledge about domestic violence deaths.
Learning Objectives: Describe the developments in knowledge of domestic violence fatalityies. Describe a major implication of this knowledge
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Homicide
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