Reflecting on the week.... Not sure why policing is so obsessed with the outcome when identifying risk, ie risk of exploitation, slavery, suicide - the factors, such as trauma, which put people at heightened risk of one adverse outcome,may also put them at risk of another .thread
I understand that policing must operate within laws when understanding the outcome, clearly, ie is this person a victim of a crime, so we understand the investigative skills needed but, to be honest if there is a crime is sometimes lost.
We need a clearer understanding of risk factors but one where the outcome matters less than the context. What happens otherwise is we have one assessment saying this is X risk for abuse but another for X for domestic abuse and X exploitation etc
It’s the contextual factors, not the potential outcome which is important but when an outcome has been unfortunately realised a better understanding of what we are dealing with is needed.
In medical terms people are at risk of adverse health outcomes, we don’t obsess about defining the specific outcome as much as policing does. Many factors correlate to heart disease and heart disease covers many conditions
What I’m saying is the risk of a specific harm may never materialise, but another one may, which we miss because we obsessed about a defined outcome. However as many harmful outcomes do not materialise we need to understand the PAT Triangle, as it’s the coming together of
Victim,perpetrator & location that results in the outcome. When two or three of those are known I think we can risk assess specific outcomes Domestic abuse is an example where this may be the case, but ironically this is case where the outcome being risk assessed is less specific
In domestic abuse we don’t assess intimate partner violence, or verbal, physical, sexual abuse separately we assess the risk of general long lasting harm. However this is a situation where we may be able to be more specific in the outcome, such an approach may help victims
By ensuring the right support is delivered to the right people. A recent study on DA made me think about this medscape.org/viewarticle/93…
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