Risk Assessment and Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic violence

Article by Lynn Hecht Schafran, Director of theNational Judicial Education Project, for Judicature Magazine, January- February, 2010.

Risk assessment is of critical concern to judges in every kind fo domestic violence case. Recent research documents the importance of a largely ignored sign of risk and potential lethality in these cases: intimate partner sexual abuse.  

Risk Assessment and Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence

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