National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

Firearms

A study of the Danger Assessment tool revealed that women who were threatened or assaulted with a gun or other weapon were twenty (20) times more likely than other women to be murdered (Campbell et al., 2003b). In an earlier study, Saltzman et al. (1992) found that “Family and intimate assaults involving firearms are twelve (12) times more likely to result in death than non-firearm-related assaults.”

• What is the connection between firearms and domestic violence homicides?                             
  
• The Facts on Guns and Domestic Violence     
  
• Domestic Violence and Firearms: An Advocates Guide     
  
• Domestic Violence and Firearms: A Deadly Combination     
  
• Firearms and Domestic Violence: A Primer for Judges     
  
• Enforcing Domestic Violence Firearm Prohibitions: A Report on Promising Practices     
  
• Model Law Enforcement Policy: Serving and Enforcing Protection Orders & Seizing Firearms in Domestic Violence Cases     
  
• A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns, and Self-Defense     
  
• Guns, Domestic Violence and Homicide     
  

Strangulation

The Family Justice Center Alliance provides training on the handling of strangulation cases for domestic violence and sexual assault professionals, and offer a training DVD entitled Strangulation: What We Have Learned that features national experts on the subject of strangulation from detection through prosecution of strangulation cases.                                  

• Media Guide: Choking versus Strangulation                               
  
• Facts About Intimate Partner Strangulation     
  
• How to Improve Your Investigation and Prosecution of Strangulation Cases     
  
• Strangulation Laws     
  
• The Impact of Minnesota’s Felony Strangulation Law     
  
• OPDV Bulletin: Strangulation in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault     
  
• Pennsylvania Crime Code: Strangulation