Sentence examples for highest risk victims from inspiring English sources

Only the highest risk victims get systematic help.

The setting might be mundane but what emerges over the next seven hours is anything but: these professionals will discuss the terror and violence, misery and threat currently being experienced by 23 women who are right now this city's highest risk victims of domestic abuse – or at least, the ones who have been identified as such.

This contrasts with a shift of funding away from prevention and longer-term support and towards services which cater for a narrow definition of "high risk" victims and provide very short-term interventions based on an equally narrow concept of safety.

In 2005, Sergeant Fassett created the "High Risk Victim" unit in the Dallas Police Department, which flags any juvenile in the city who runs away from home four or more times in a given year.

A high risk victim is officially defined as having suffered – or potentially suffering – an event that is "life threatening and/or traumatic, and from which recovery whether physical or psychological can be expected to be difficult or impossible... the potential event could happen at any time and the impact would be serious".

Tina, not her real name, has been supported by the advice service Paladin which supports high-risk victims of stalking.

So the unit instead targets them for such minor offenses as truancy or picks them up as high-risk victims, speaking to them when their guard is down.

Successful commissioning focuses on services which are led by the needs of all users, rather than concentrating purely on high-risk victims.

This month the NT government said its $6m domestic violence safety strategy had in its first year referred 301 high-risk victims to family safety meetings, and the Northern Territory police had referred 331 domestic violence victims to specialist support services in the last financial year.

The figures from the domestic abuse charity SafeLives reveal that almost a quarter of "high-risk" victims have been to an A&E with injuries sustained during violent abuse, and some went as many as 15 times before the problem was addressed.

"If that's the case it means that more women are going to be trapped in abusive relationships with no support to get out and eventually that abuse is going to escalate and they are going to become high-risk victims.