ICADV—09-10 Domestic Violence Homicide: Social Impact and Community Costs

The Impact of Domestic Violence

Homicide,October 2010

On October 1, 2010, ICADV Released Its

Domestic Violence Homicide Report: June 2009 – May 2010

ICADV examined the circumstances surrounding 76 domestic violence homicides in a recent, one year period and shows that when domestic violence homicide occurs, it is men who kill their partners and former partners, as well as their children.

Why Should

YOU Care?

WHO IS AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?

EVERYONE

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDE

A TRUE STORY

1975

THE STORY BEGINS

Police did not arrest even if assaults were serious.

No Order of Protection was available for Police to enforce.

The murderer’s sister & family (4).

Dead wife’s brother & his family (5).

One (1) wife murdered.

1978

The dead wife’s two (2) parents.

One (1) 11-year-old son witnessed

murderof mother.

Students at son’s school (50).

Neighbors at four different residences

(30).

Church friends (30).

Other community members (5).

Friends (5).

Police/Fire/Health Professionals (30)

This woman’s death effected 163 people throughout

the community.

Cost Associated with Investigating, Trying, and Incarcerating

Perpetrator of 1 DV Murder Clean-up of murder site: $2,400 Casket/funeral: $7,445 Autopsy: $2,500 Law enforcement costs: $5,600 Trial costs: $45,000 5 years in prison: $111,000 Total: $173,945*

*Figures based on data presented in The Cost of Murder, The Tennessean. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS1302, retrieved 7/18/06.

Murdered victim’s lost income for her family was $900,000.

30 years lost income at $30k a year.

*The figures are based on data presented in The Cost of Murder, The Tennessean. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS1302, retrieved 7/18/06.

In MAY 2002, the same man killed his 14

year old daughter in her maternal grandparent’s home, and then set it on

fire.

This same man killed his second wife’s sister (4).

Second wife’s parents and family (12).

Second wife (1).

•Police/Fire/Health Professionals (40).•High school freshmen(130).•Church friends (30). •Friends (10).•Other community members (5).

Domestic violence program staff (10).

These two deaths impacted 243

people.

Sister’s lost income(30 years @ $30k/yr):

$900,000+

Daughter’s lost income(40 years @$30k/yr):

$1,200,000(DHHS, CDC, 2003 Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against

Women in the United States)

Cost Associated with Investigating, these 2 DV Murders and 1 Suicide

Clean-up of murder site: $7,200 Casket/funeral: $22,335 Autopsy: $7,500 Law enforcement costs: $16,800 Total:

$53,835*

*Figures based on data presented in The Cost of Murder, The Tennessean. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS1302, retrieved 7/18/06.

1975-2002

1 perpetrator shoots and kills 3 family members.

406 people affected

6 communities

$3 million lost income

$227,780 cost to taxpayers

Taxpayer costs higher

Trial $90,000 20 years in prison $888,000 Wounded-Hospital

$48,000 Total $1,026,000

Is Domestic Violence a private matter?

Could these murders have been prevented?

1978 - NO2002 - YES

Sheriff did not fully understand domestic violence dynamics or IDVA.

Deputies were not adequately trained.

Deputies did not follow up.

Lack of coordinated response between jurisdictions.

Access to guns and no consequences.

Unfortunately, this story is all too common.

Your Town, IL:

# murders in # years for an average of #

people affected

Cost Associated with Investigating, Trying, and Incarcerating Perpetrators of # DV Murders

Clean-up of murder site: $ Casket/funeral: $ Autopsy: $ Law enforcement costs: $ Trial costs: $ 5 years in prison: $ Total: $*

*Figures based on data presented in The Cost of Murder, The Tennessean. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS1302, retrieved 7/18/06.

WHO IS AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?

EVERYONE

To read the full report on Illinois domestic violence homicides, go to

http://www.ilcadv.org/dkdkdkdk