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Domestic abuse, intimate-partner violence and the wider VAWG agenda — and what the data does and doesn't show.
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Public Space Protection Orders are being used against sexual harassment in Bradford and London. They make local enforcement possible, but evidence that they reduce harassment remains limited.
How supervisors can test the reasoning behind a medium domestic abuse risk grade, review the safeguarding plan and recognise the limits of DARA.
What studies of England matches reveal about alcohol, timing and recorded domestic abuse, and how police and partners could test their response.
In 1981 Lawrence Sherman ran a domestic violence call as a scientific experiment, and policing was never quite the same. A profile of the American criminologist who argued that the police should be tested like medicine — and who taught the officers, Alex Murray among them, who carried the idea into British policing.
BBC Radio 4's More or Less is useful professional development for anyone working with police data. Five habits matter most: check the denominator, definition, comparison, causal claim and your own instinct to believe the number.
