Fatality Review

Last year, fifty (50) Colorado fatalities were attributable to domestic violence.

To ensure adequate treatment for women seeking portection through the courts; Project Safeguard-in conjunction with CourtWatch-developed Fatality Review to track these deaths and research the circumstances of the relationship that lead to the violent conclusions.

One-in-three women are victims of an intimate partnerhomicide. We know that the violence is generationally perpetuated, but we don't know how to stop or even slow it down. As a society, we pretend that "it can't happen to us, so it doesn't exist". We know that the violence is generationally perpetuated, but we don't know how to stop or even slow it down. As a society, we pretend that, "it can't happen to us so it doesn't exist." Legally we can only deal with it after it occurs.

To affect change, we must develop more effective methods of:

• Identification;
• Prevention;
• Intervention; and
• Resolution.

Only through understanding the contributing and precipitating factors of violence between intimate partners can we develop programs to raise awareness, remove the stigma, and enlist the community-at-large to end violence in families.

Fatality Review brings together a multi-disciplinary cross section of system-based and non-profit agencies who work for domestic violence victims. They consider the facts of a case study and develop community education and policy recommendations for those who respond to the violence. Without a devisive method for addressing domestic violence, there is no hope of eliminating it from our society. Check back for the 2006 report on Domestic Violence Fatalities. Click here to view our 2001 report, "When Domestic Violence Kills".