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Perpetrators are “high risk”, not victims.

June 3, 2015, Admin EVB Analysis,

For those in the women’s sector, police and/or wider social care DASH RIC will be a familiar acronym. It stands for “Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment Risk Indicator Checklist. It was developed by Laura Richards (a criminologist) and CAADA (now known as Safe Lives) and is an evidence based system for assessing risk in a […]

CAADA, DASH RIC, Domestic Abuse, high risk, high risk perpetrators, perpetrators, Safe Lives, Stalking and Harassment Risk Indicator Checklist

Helping the Telegraph with some domestic abuse stats

March 30, 2015, Admin Media Complaints,

(Cross-posted with permission from Safe Lives) When I tell my friends that I work for SafeLives, their reaction is often one of surprise. They don’t go so far as to say “But you’re a man” or “Isn’t domestic violence a women’s issue?” but you can sometimes see the question in their eyes. I work for […]

Domestic Abuse, domestic abuse statistics, domestic violence, male violence, Neil Lyndon, Safe Lives, victim blaming, violence against women and girls