RT Article T1 Dashing hopes?: the predictive accuracy of domestic abuse risk assessment by police JF The British journal of criminology VO 59 IS 5 SP 1013 OP 1034 A1 Turner, Emily A1 Medina, Juanjo A1 Brown, Gavin LA English YR 2019 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1671911636 AB The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH) form is a standardized risk assessment implemented across most UK police forces. It is intended to facilitate an officer’s structured professional judgment about the risk a victim faces of serious harm at the hand of their abuser. Until now, it has been an open question whether this tool works in practice. Here, we present the largest scale European study, making the case that the risk assessment tool is underperforming. Each element of the DASH questionnaire is, at best, weakly predictive of revictimization. Officer risk predictions based on DASH are little better than random and a logistic regression model that predicts the same outcome using DASH only provides modest improvement in performance. K1 Domestic abuse K1 Risk assessment K1 Police K1 Predictive policing K1 Machine learning K1 Häusliche Gewalt K1 Polizeiarbeit K1 Maschinelles Lernen K1 Vorausschauende Polizeiarbeit K1 Techniken DO 10.1093/bjc/azy074