@article{d99440b80b0549dda2e837c94de39c57,
title = "Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide: The Importance of Margo Wilson's Foundational Research",
abstract = "Margo Wilson's groundbreaking work identifying risk factors for homicide was foundational for development of the Danger Assessment (DA), an instrument for use with victim/survivors of domestic violence to help them accurately determine their risk of lethality. Margo's work is briefly reviewed as are her lessons on how to conduct collaborative interdisciplinary practice and policy relevant homicide research. The DA was validated in a collaborative interdisciplinary national study and is the basis of several brief risk assessments used in the criminal justice system in several states. Several of the factors on the DA are directly attributable to Margo's work.",
keywords = "danger assessment, evolutionary psychology, femicide, gender, intimate partner, risk factors, victim/offender relationship",
author = "Campbell, {Jacquelyn C.}",
note = "Funding Information: As I continued to use the DA and to be part of the development of knowledge in the domestic violence field, I became convinced that I needed to conduct a data-based exploration of the risk factors for intimate partner homicide to validate the DA, determine a weighted scoring, and identify which other risk factors for intimate partner homicide might be important. Margo, along with Martin Daly, Becky Block, and the Dobashes, encouraged me to find the funding to conduct that kind of study using national data. We talked about the serious limitations of such a study using information from the Supplemental Homicide Reports (SHR), which was the usual practice in homicide research. We discussed how the SHR, which are based on police homicide files, carry important limitations for the study of risk factors for intimate partner homicide; information on prior arrests for domestic violence vastly underestimates actual prior domestic violence, and homicide suicides (approximately 25%-30% of intimate partner homicides of women) do not have much information in the SHR (). I wrote at least four major proposals to various funding agencies that were all rejected, improving the proposal each time with the help of these colleagues and tremendously influenced by Margo{\textquoteright}s research and publications during that time. Finally, my interdisciplinary collaborative proposal “Risk factors for homicide in violent intimate relationships” (R01 DA/AA11156-01) was funded in 1996 by the joint (National Institutes of Health [NIH], National Institute of Justice [NIJ], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) research funding written into the first Violence Against Women Act passed in 1995. Margo was an enormous influence in the proposal and would have been a coinvestigator except for the need to keep the data collection in the United States and our budget constraints. ",
year = "2012",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1177/1088767912463208",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "438--444",
journal = "Homicide Studies",
issn = "1088-7679",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "4",
}