Citation

Lauria I, McEwan TE, Luebbers S, Simmons M, Ogloff JRP. Crim. Justice Behav. 2017; 44(12): 1545-1558.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0093854817738280

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article describes a prospective validation of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) in an Australian sample of 854 family violence cases presenting to police over a 5-month period in 2015. Two hundred cases met inclusion criteria for administration of the ODARA (male-to-female intimate partner violence with a history of assault and cohabitation). The ODARA performed well in predicting further intimate partner physical assault (area under the curve [AUC] =.68), and in predicting the outcome of any further police contact for nonphysical intimate partner abuse (AUC =.72). Despite these positive results, the instrument's restrictive inclusion criteria meant that it could be appropriately applied in only 23% of family violence cases reported to police during the data collection period, limiting its practicality in this setting.

Language: en