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Homicide:
Welcome to our study website. This study has been funded by the ESRC (ES/S005471/1) and aims to address important gaps in existing knowledge of domestic homicide and to influence policy and practice to prevent domestic homicide nationally and potentially internationally.
It is an innovative three-year study that commenced in May 2019. The Principal Investigator is Professor Khatidja Chantler, based at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Abuse:
Domestic Abuse or Domestic Violence is defined across the Government as any incident of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of their gender or sexuality.
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Learning Together:
Existing literature on domestic homicide, Domestic Homicide Reviews and interviews with family members who have lost someone to domestic homicide and survivors of domestic abuse will help us learn from these events to improve service responses to domestic abuse.
An introduction to HALT
The World Health Organisation (2013) indicates that 38% of all murders of women globally are committed by intimate partners. The UN Report ‘the World’s Women’ (2020) found that around one-third of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner, and 18% have experienced such violence in the past 12 months. An estimated 137 women are killed by their intimate partner or a family member every day. This UNODC study (2019) offers insights into the gender-related killing of women and girls. Document Link