Evaluating the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment in an Australian Frontline Police Setting

This article describes a prospective validation of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) in an Australian sample of 854 family violence cases presenting to police over a 5-month period in 2015. Two hundred cases met inclusion criteria for administration of the ODARA (male-to-female in...

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VerfasserInnen: Lauria, Ilana (VerfasserIn) ; Ogloff, James R. P. (VerfasserIn) ; Luebbers, Stefan (VerfasserIn) ; McEwan, Troy E. (VerfasserIn) ; Simmons, Melanie (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [2017]
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Jahr: 2017, Band: 44, Heft: 12, Seiten: 1545-1558
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Violence risk assessment
Intimate partner violence
Family violence
Actuarial risk assessment
ODARA
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Zusammenfassung:This article describes a prospective validation of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) in an Australian sample of 854 family violence cases presenting to police over a 5-month period in 2015. Two hundred cases met inclusion criteria for administration of the ODARA (male-to-female intimate partner violence with a history of assault and cohabitation). The ODARA performed well in predicting further intimate partner physical assault (area under the curve [AUC] = .68), and in predicting the outcome of any further police contact for nonphysical intimate partner abuse (AUC = .72). Despite these positive results, the instrument’s restrictive inclusion criteria meant that it could be appropriately applied in only 23% of family violence cases reported to police during the data collection period, limiting its practicality in this setting.
ISSN:1552-3594
DOI:10.1177/0093854817738280