CRIM 470 Domestic Homicide

This course examines high-risk, nearly lethal, and lethal forms of domestic violence with a focus on causes, patterns, risk factors, prevention and intervention strategies, and structural and systemic barriers to safety. Through the application of critical and intersectional lenses, students explore how gender, race, Indigeneity, legal status, class, sexuality, and ability impact victimization, perpetration, and access to justice in cases of domestic homicide. A key component is case-based domestic homicide reviews that mirror the processes and procedures of real life domestic violence death review committees, which are guided by the principle: we speak for the dead to protect the living.