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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE:
Predictable & Preventable
The need for solutions
Homicide is the fifth leading cause of death for women aged 18 to 44. Current or former intimate (romantic) partners commit 14% of all homicides in the U.S., with over 70% of the victims being female.
Research has shown that intimate partner domestic violence homicides are often predictable; and if they’re predictable, they’re preventable.
History
In 2005, we began to grow our domestic violence homicide prevention work at the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. We began this work as advocates, developing the Domestic Violence High Risk Team (DVHRT) Model and then the Danger Assessment for Law Enforcement (DA-LE), seeing firsthand how these solutions can be implemented right here in our backyard.
As we grew, so did the implementation of these tools, and we were able to provide support to more communities to make their own impact in homicide reduction. To date, we have provided training and technical assistance to over 400 jurisdictions across the country working to prevent domestic violence homicides. The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women recognized the DVHRT Model as a “successful homicide reduction model” in intimate partner homicide prevention.
We realized new solutions and more resources were needed, and in 2022 we introduced the Geiger Institute.
Geiger institute
Click here to visit the Geiger Institute website.
Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center is, at its heart, an agency serving survivors in our local communities and implementing prevention and intervention programs. The Geiger Institute operates as a program of the Center, and enables us to continue to grow our domestic violence homicide prevention work nationally. We are actively expanding the Geiger Institute team, building our partnerships, raising critical funding, and evolving our work to increase pathways to safety for those who are most at risk of fatal intimate partner violence.
For more information about the Geiger Institute and ways that your community could join in partnership to reduce domestic violence homicides, please email info@geigerinstitute.org
Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors supports the Geiger Institute by offering expert counsel, guidance, and strategic insight to strengthen the Institute’s national domestic violence homicide reduction initiatives.
No Visible Bruises
In 2009, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder was standing in the driveway of a dear friend when she met Suzanne Dubus, the CEO of Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. One conversation about our homicide prevention work stopped her in her tracks.
The result was years of reporting on domestic violence homicide – including No Visible Bruises, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year that changed how millions of people understand intimate partner violence. Rachel featured the work of Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center – work born from advocates responding to the urgent needs of their own community. That homicide prevention work has grown into Geiger Institute, a national initiative dedicated to ending domestic violence homicides.
If you’re here because of Rachel’s writing — then you already understand why this work matters. And we’re so grateful she’s kept telling the story.