The bill listed FGC among13 items of family violence.
The scale includes items for seriousness of violence and self harm, immediacy of risk of violence and self harm, specialist forensic need, absconding, preventing access to contraband, victim sensitivity and public confidence, complex risk of violence, institutional behaviour and legal process.
The last two of these have in common a rating system designed to match patients to levels of security, from 0 to 4. An actuarial tool based on risk factors which contained only one item reflecting seriousness of violence had a moderate receiver operating characteristic but modest predictive power [ 14, 15].
Although these seem to capture similar levels of exposure to the more severe psychological violence items of VAWI, milder forms of psychological violence are also represented in VAWI, and thus the instrument captures a broader range of psychologically violent acts.
The instrument consists of 78 items assessing both perpetration of violence and also victimization; the present study uses only the 39 items relating specifically to women's victimization experiences [ 53].
Violence victimization was based on items regarding the type of violence, physical or sexual, that FSWs experienced.
In 2005, a standardized approach of measuring wife beating was used, which is based on 8 items describing different forms of violence.
The DUNDRUM-1 triage security instrument includes eleven items rating the seriousness of violence, need for specialist treatments and other indicators of need for high, medium or low levels of therapeutic security.
It consists of a scale of 11 items, as follows: seriousness of violence, seriousness of self-harm, immediacy of risk of violence, immediacy of risk of self-harm, specialist forensic need, absconding/eloping, preventing access, victim sensitivity and public confidence, complex risk of violence, institutional behaviour and legal process.
Twelve of the 17 items predicted the absence of violence including factors such as empathy (OR = 0.231), coping ability (OR = 0.187), self-control (OR = 0.205), work and leisure activities (OR = 0.336), financial management (OR = 0.231), motivation for treatment (OR = 0.340) and attitudes towards authority (OR = 0.264).
