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Oklahoma Lethality Assessment Study: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lethality Assessment Program

NCJ Number
249258
Journal
Social Service Review Volume: 89 Issue: 3 Dated: September 2015 Pages: 499-530
Author(s)
Jill T. Messing; Jaquelyn Campbell; Daniel W. Webster; Sheryll Brown; Beverly Patchell; Janel Sullivan Wilson
Date Published
September 2015
Length
32 pages
Annotation

This quasi-experimental field trial examined the effectiveness of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), a police-social service collaboration wherein social service practitioners provide advocacy, safety planning, and referral for services over the telephone during police-involved intimate partner violence (IPV) incidents for women at high risk of homicide.

Abstract

Although additional research is needed, the study concludes that the LAP is a promising evidence-informed intervention that holds the potential to increase survivors' safety and foster decisions of self-care. Structured telephone interviews were conducted with survivors as soon as possible after the incident of violence and again approximately 7 months later. The majority of participants (61.6 percent) recruited during the intervention phase of the study talked to the hotline advocates, and propensity score-matched analyses indicate that women who received the intervention reported using significantly more protective strategies and were victimized by significantly less physical violence than women in the comparison group. (Publisher abstract modified)