I hesitate to raise this, as there are good reasons to try to protect the vulnerable & over 2 dozen women have been murdered this year in oz in domestic violence. I think this goes too far.
A research paper prepared by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, which is helping to guide government thinking, said these were often “middle-class men who were well respected in their communities and had low levels of contact with the criminal justice system”.
But the researchers said these offenders were hard to identify because their behaviours – such as stalking and emotional and verbal abuse – were often invisible to police. That meant new techniques to detect them were required, using information that traditional law enforcement agencies did not always collect.
“Developing innovative responses such as intelligence-led policing, delivered in partnership with representatives from the family law, mental health and domestic violence sectors, is a promising avenue for stopping this type of offender and in turn protecting high-risk victims and their families,” they said.
Useful information would include: GPS data, to determine when they might be following their victim; online activity data to show if they’ve been stalking the person online; mental health data to determine if the offender is seeking support for suicidal ideation, disturbed sleep or mood changes; and information about family law processes if there’s a separation.
“Once [these ‘fixated-threat’] offenders have been made visible, the subsequent response needs to be implemented quickly and intensively to manage the threat posed by these individuals to their partners and families,” the report said.
