Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-Based Violence (DASH) Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model

Key Findings

• — Provides a structured set of risk-identification questions spanning physical violence, coercive and controlling behaviour, stalking, escalation, and honour-based risk indicators.
• — Designed for multi-agency use with victims and to trigger referral to Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences.
• — Intended to be combined with practitioner professional judgement rather than used as a standalone actuarial predictor.

Methodology Notes

Practitioner risk-assessment model (checklist), ACPO-accredited and rolled out across UK police forces from March 2009; described by its custodians as a living model ("Dash 2009"). Date precision is the March 2009 national implementation. Not itself peer-reviewed — hence credibility 'credible', not 'authoritative'. Its predictive accuracy is under documented academic dispute: Turner, Medina & Brown (2019), 'Dashing Hopes? The Predictive Accuracy of Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment by Police', Br J Criminology 59(5):1013–1034 (DOI 10.1093/bjc/azy074), reports police DASH predictions performing little better than chance (AUC ≈0.54). The SafeLives checklist PDF bot-blocks automated fetchers; the official model site (dashriskchecklist.com) resolves and confirms authorship, ACPO accreditation, and scope.

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