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Intimate Partner Femicide – When Men Murder Women

Scottish Women's Aid

This event is in the past

Just as our understanding has developed that domestic abuse does not always involve physical violence, we now recognise that violence is no longer considered the biggest predicator of domestic homicide.

Research published in 2019 by Dr Jane Monckton Smith explored 372 cases of intimate partner homicide through interviews with bereaved families and public protection professionals. Through her study, Dr Jane Monckton Smith, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Gloucestershire, found an emerging pattern that could be broken down into eight separate stages, known as the 8 Stage Homicide Timeline. This timeline is now being widely promoted and adopted by police forces and other organisations seeking to manage risk and identify potential victims of homicide before it is too late.

The session will explore the research and enable delegates to consider how it may be applied to assist in predicting and ultimately preventing the critical steps a killer takes from stalking, violence and coercive control to domestic homicide.

By the end of the session you will:

• Possess a greater awareness of the different types of violence and abuse that occur within relationships

• Understand the links between domestic abuse and intimate partner homicide.

• Have enhanced knowledge of the impact and consequences of intimate partner homicide on women and their children and young people

• Be better able to identify risk and relate this to the 8 stage homicide timeline

• Be more confident assessing risk and abuse occurring within intimate relationships enabling appropriate service responses to supporting survivors of Domestic Abuse

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a arrange of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Date
10:00-12:30, 1 December 2021
Contact
Rosemary Banner
01312266606
Theme
Social justice & poverty
Cost
£25.00
Attendance type
Online only
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