Purpose

Family involvement is a key element of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR), the form of Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) found in England and Wales. Family involvement is framed as having dual purposes: first, as a benefit to DHRs, enabling a fuller picture of victims’ experiences; second, as a benefit to families themselves, notably as a therapeutic or cathartic opportunity. However, these dual purposes have been little considered. This conceptual article responds to this absence by interrogating the purpose, process and outcomes of family involvement within DHRs.

Method

To explicate purpose, process and outcomes, we synthesise policy, practice and the extant empirical and theoretical literature relating to family involvement in DHRs. We supplement this by engaging with a broader body of emerging research on family involvement in other review systems, analysing this through a lens of citizenship and participation.

Results

Family involvement in DHRs is little explicated and there is a need to better engage with how family are involved in DHRs, as a way of increasing transparency for family rights. By way of response, a tentative conceptual framework is proposed which situates family involvement as demonstrative of systems- and relational-repair.

Conclusions

The article concludes by arguing for greater attention to the Theory(s) of Change underpinning both the place of the family and their testimony, as well as the DHR system as a whole. Such clarity would benefit family, both as the subject of professional interactions but, critically, as agents in the DHR process in their own right.

中文翻译：

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引导家庭参与家庭暴力致死率审查：系统和关系修复的前景概念化

目的

家庭参与是家庭凶杀案审查 (DHR) 的关键要素，家庭暴力致死审查 (DVFR) 是在英格兰和威尔士发现的一种形式。家庭参与被认为具有双重目的：首先，作为对 DHR 的好处，使受害者的经历更全面；其次，作为对家庭本身的好处，特别是作为治疗或宣泄的机会。然而，这些双重目的很少被考虑。这篇概念性文章通过询问 DHR 中家庭参与的目的、过程和结果来回应这种缺席。

方法

为了解释目的、过程和结果，我们综合了与家庭参与 DHR 相关的政策、实践和现存的经验和理论文献。我们通过参与更广泛的关于家庭参与其他审查系统的新兴研究来补充这一点，并通过公民身份和参与的视角进行分析。

结果

家庭在 DHR 中的参与很少被解释，需要更好地参与家庭如何参与 DHR，作为提高家庭权利透明度的一种方式。作为回应，提出了一个暂定的概念框架，将家庭参与定位为系统和关系修复的示范。

结论

文章最后主张更多地关注支持家庭地位及其证词的变革理论，以及整个 DHR 系统。这种明确性将有益于家庭，既作为专业互动的主题，又作为 DHR 流程中的代理人，以其自身的权利。