• Police department homicide logs.
    Examine for overall estimate of domestic violence homicides in a jurisdiction.
    Check classification/coding of cases.
    This is a good important starting point.
  • Newspaper reports.
  • Crime scene investigations.
  • Detective’s follow-up investigative reports.
  • Details of any prior protective orders, temporary, and permanent.
  • Notice of service of protective orders.
  • Affidavits requesting issuance of protection orders.
  • Civil court data regarding divorce, termination of parental rights, child custody battles, or child visitation.
  • Any criminal histories of the perpetrators and victim.
  • Child protective agency summary data and prior abuse histories.
  • Summaries of psychological evaluations/reports appearing in public record documents such as police files.
  • Medical examiners report.
  • Autopsy report.
  • Workplace information, perhaps regarding harassment, abuse, alerts among Medical data, hospital emergency room data.
  • Shelter/outreach data from advocates for battered women, if appropriate and legally permissible.
  • School data regarding children reporting abuse in the home.
  • Statements from neighbors, friends, witnesses, and so on. May be contained in police files as transcribed material, or in court documents/transcripts from trials.
  • Pre-sentence investigation report (probation).
  • Parole information including notification of victims.
  • State statutes on domestic violence.
  • Information regarding weapons confiscation, purchase, background checks.
  • Drug and alcohol treatment data.