Intimate partner violence risk assessment in forensic psychology office
Abstract
Introduction: The main goal of risk assessment is to prevent and develop management strategies to minimize risk, mainly to understand how and why individuals choose to act violently and to determine what factors may contribute to the individual’s future choice of violence [1–3] and supporting the criminal justice system in judicial decision-making process (e.g. sentence, intervention) [4]. Materials and methods: The sample is comprised by 25 cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment was collected between 2017 and 2018 in Forensic Psychology Office of Egas Moniz Forensic and Psychological Sciences Laboratory (GPF-LCFPEM). We assessed 13 victims: 12 women and 1 man, aged between 18 and 56 years old (M = 34.08, sd = 11.13); and 12 defendants: 10 men and 2 women, aged between 23 and 59 years old (M = 38.25, sd = 13.27). The relationship between victims and defendants are: 14 ex-partners; 7 ex-boyfriend/girlfriend; 2 married; 2 ex-spouses. Data was collected from lawsuits, semi-structured interviews of the victims and defendants, collateral information and clinical and forensic assessment tools [e.g. BSI; SARA; PCL: SV]. Victims and defendants signed an informed consent term, which contained the goal of the evaluation, the limits of the confidentiality, and also information about the ethics and impartiality of the technicians. Results: Defendants had more symptoms of somatization (75%), hostility (75%), and phobic anxiety (75%), and victims had more symptoms of…
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