title: The danger assessment: validation of a lethality risk assessment instrument for intimate partner femicide.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. jcampbel@son.jhmi.edu
authors.forename: Jacquelyn C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Daniel W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Glass
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000145:classification*; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000145:classification* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000145:classification* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016387:Women's Health