StarEditorial: A plan to end partner violence. Research shows that survivors of intimate partner violence benefit from receiving adequate social services and mental health support.
A woman is subject to abuse at the hands of her intimate partner. The police and other criminal justice system personnel are notified, but fail to take appropriate action. The abuse escalates. In the worst cases, the woman, or other innocent people, lose their lives. The names change, and the story repeats.
Many women certainly think so, as they worry that calling police will only result in an escalation of violence. Others fear that they might be the ones to end up in handcuffs — much as Lisa Banfield was when she was arrested for supplying Wortman with ammunition. Now, two recent, comprehensive investigations — the Mass Casualty Commission into Wortman’s rampage and theIndeed, the commission and the inquest heard strikingly similar stories, and they delivered remarkably similar recommendations. Both advocated for a preventive, whole-of-society approach to addressing intimate partner violence, with a particular focus on marginalized women.
One such program, currently being evaluated in Peel, pairs police officers with social workers to attend non-criminal domestic situations.
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