Repeat domestic and family violence amoung young people
Research Summary: Repeat domestic and family violence among young people.
There are a number of risk assessment tools and safety measures that services and frontline workers have in place to protect and maintain the safety of domestic and family violence (DFV) victims and their children. However, there is a push within the service sector to concurrently apply equal focus towards responding to the behaviours of perpetrators (Not Now, Not Ever report, 2015). Understanding when a perpetrator will reoffend, and when the risk of reoffending is highest, is extremely valuable for enhancing victim safety and also in enhancing interventions that target reoffending behaviour. A recent report by Boxall and Morgan (2020) from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) aims to predict the shortterm reoffending patterns of young people who use DFV. Amended and abridged article: Boxall, H., & Morgan, A. (2020). Repeat domestic and family violence among young people. Trends & Issues in crime & criminal justice No. 591. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi591
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The study This study uses incident data from Victorian police to look at short-term reoffending patterns of young people aged between 12 and 18 years of age (n=3891) engaged in DFV. Specifically, the authors to look at:
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the prevalence of repeat violence at particular intervals (14, 30, 60, 90 and 180 days)
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the timing of the first repeat violence incident
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the peak period for repeat violence and
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cumulative rates of repeat violence.
Reported cases of young people engaged in DFV in 2014 were used as the reference point, as well as, prior and future incident data (up to 2015). The sample of young people was divided into two cohorts based on the type of violence used, resulting in a domestic violence (DV) group and a family violence (FV) group. Some young people were reported for repeat incidents of both domestic violence (between intimate partner) and family violence (family members, including parents, siblings, grandparents, step-parents and foster carers). Although there are some youth who were represented in both the cohorts, repeat offending patterns for both types of violence were not analysed in this report.
