Study title

England and Wales

Individual

Family

Family: Household family

Household

Housing Unit

Event/process

Other

Data collection: The research project was made up of three work packages. For more detailed information please see the accompanying methodology document. WP 1 was a systematic literature review of international approaches to the review of domestic homicides. It is not included here but informed the rest of the project. WP 2 provided a large-scale analysis of DHRs as well as a focussed analysis of specific sub-sets which can be utilised to inform prevention and risk management of domestic abuse cases that may lead to homicide. We utilised a mixed methods approach to analyse 302 publicly available DHRs from Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) in England & Wales. WP 3 employed an experience-based co-design (EBCD) approach to interviewing some key stakeholders and gather the experiences and views of i) family members who have lost a relative to domestic homicide; ii) survivors of domestic abuse who have experienced assaults or stalking and iii) professionals involved in the DHR process. Access: Access to family members was largely through Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) and access to survivors of domestic violence was via Safe Net (Lancashire). Analysis: interviews were transcribed and analysed using the Listening Guide (Brown and Gilligan, 1991) which involved four sequential readings (or ‘listenings’) to attend to the different voices in the narrative and to illustrate the journeys of victims, families, good practice and lost opportunities for intervention. Braun & Clarke’s (2006) method of thematic analysis was employed across all narratives utilising NVivo for data organisation. We created three digital films and these are available at: https://domestichomicide-halt.co.uk/resource-center/ Following the analysis, and the identification of themes from interviews, a full-day event was convened with the two CSP networks to share the learning and to identify priorities for action. Outputs including policy briefings, peer reviewed journal articles, a series of films, a book of poetry based on the transcripts of survivor and family interviews were disseminated via a hybrid online and in person conference (May 2022) and on the project website (https://domestichomicide-halt.co.uk). An expanding series of peer-reviewed journal articles are also available the HALT project website.