TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - The Danger Assessment: Validation of a Lethality Risk Assessment Instrument for Intimate Partner Femicide
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Campbell, Jacquelyn C.
A1  - Webster, Daniel W.
A1  - Glass, Nel
SP  - 653
EP  - 674
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
N2  - The Danger Assessment (DA) is an instrument designed to assess the likelihood of lethality or near lethality occurring in a case of intimate partner violence. This article describes the development, psychometric validation, and suggestions for use of the DA. An 11-city study of intimate partner femicide used multivariate analysis to test the predictive validity of the risk factors on the DA from intimate partner femicide cases (N = 310) compared with 324 abused women in the same cities (controls). The results were used to revise the DA (four items added; one"double-barreled"item divided into two), and the calculated weights (adjusted odds ratios) used to develop a scoring algorithm with levels of risk. These levels of risk were then tested with an independent sample of attempted femicides (N = 194) with a final outcome of .90 of the cases included in the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260508317180
ID  - ref1
ER  -