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New Orleans Family Justice Center Strangulation Assessment (2017)

Recent research in the field of intimate partner violence has shown that prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with greater than six-fold odds of becoming an attempted homicide, and over seven-fold odds of becoming a completed... Read More

New Orleans Family Justice Center Strangulation Assessment (2016)

Recent research in the field of intimate partner violence has shown that prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with greater than six-fold odds of becoming an attempted homicide, and over seven-fold odds of becoming a completed... Read More

Media Guide: Understanding the Realities of Strangulation

This guide is designed to assist media professionals in understanding the importance of using appropriate language to describe non-fatal strangulation, specifically, when discussing strangulation and suffocation within the context of power and control, domestic violence... Read More