ODARA

Autorisierte deutsche Übersetzung

Gerth, J., Rossegger, A., Urbaniok, F., Endrass, J. (2014): Das Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) – Validität und autorisierte deutsche Übersetzung eines Screening-Instruments für Risikobeurteilungen bei Intimpartnergewalt. Publiziert in: Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie. 82(11), 616-26.

Die Übersetzung vom Englischen ins Deutsche erfolgte durch oben genannte Autoren. Die deutsche Übersetzung wurde von einem Native Speaker ins Englische rückübersetzt, der blind für die englische Originalversion war. Die deutsche Übersetzung und die englische Rückübersetzung wurden den Autoren des ODARA sowie dem Verlag, in dem das Buch erschienen ist, zur Prüfung vorgelegt und von diesen freigegeben.

Assessment

Identifying the index assault

Defining recidivism

Gathering necessary information

Item scoring

Missing items

This assessment applies to Name / surrogate name / case ID:

After the assessment is completed, this Name / surrogate name / case ID will be irrevocably deleted.

1
Prior Domestic Incident

For the purposes of scoring the ODARA, a domestic incident is defined as one in which the man being assessed assaulted his current or previous female cohabiting partner and/or her children and the assault is recorded in a police occurrence report or criminal record.

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2
Prior Nondomestic Incident

For the purposes of scoring the ODARA, a nondomestic incident is defined as one in which the man being assessed assaulted any person other than his current or previous female cohabiting partner or her children and the assault is recorded in a police occurrence report or criminal record.

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3
Prior Custodial Sentence of 30 Days or More

A custodial sentence includes only the final disposition handed down by the court for a criminal offense. It is not necessary for the man to have served the entire sentence to score 1 for this item.

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4
Failure on Prior Conditional Release

Conditional release includes administrative release, bail, conditional discharge, parole, probation, promise to appear, suspended sentence, or any other occasion on which the man was at liberty in the Community under supervision or other requirement ordered by a criminal court; it also includes no-contact, protection, or restraining orders imposed by a criminal or civil court.

Some examples of conditional release failures are committing a new criminal offense, failing to appear for court, failing to attend an appointment with a probation officer, drinking when prohibited, having firearms when prohibited, coming to a person's home or workplace when prohibited, and contacting a person when prohibited.

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5
Threat to Harm or Kill at the Index Assault

For the purposes of scoring this item, a threat must clearly pertain to physical harm to a person. Normally this indication is in the form of a specific verbal threat to harm a person physically. In a criminal record, evidence of a threat meeting the criteria for this item would be found in a charge of threatening, criminal threatening, uttering a threat, or terrorizing. Evidence of a physical gesture that is commonly recognized as a threat to harm a person physically can also be used to score this item.

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6
Confinement of the Partner at the Index Assault

For the purposes of scoring this item, confinement is defined as any act carried out to physically prevent the victim from leaving the scene of the incident. In most cases, confinement would be scored on the basis of evidence that the perpetrator kept the victim in a room with the exit barred. In a criminal record, evidence to score this item would be found in a charge of forcible confinement or kidnapping arising from the index assault, provided the victim is known to be the female domestic partner.

In some cases, other acts by the perpetrator that deprived the victim of the ability to leave the scene of the incident can be used to score this item. These less common examples of confinement include holding on to or pinning down the victim when she tried to escape, purposefully standing between the victim and the escape route when she tried to escape, removing or destroying the victim's clothing when she tried to escape by going outdoors, and forcibly removing keys to a vehicle or damaging a vehicle while she is trying to escape in it.

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7
Victim Concern

This item captures the victim's prediction of future assaults against herself or her children. Any statement made by the victim that indicates concern, fear, worry, or certainty pertaining to a possible future domestic assault is considered an example of victim concern.

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8
More Than One Child

Add up the number of children the perpetrator has, plus any additional children the victim has. There must be more than one child in total to score 1 for this item.

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9
Victim's Biological Child From a Previous Partner

To score 1 for this item, the victim of the index assault must have a biological child whose father is not the perpetrator. Only one child is needed to score 1 for this item.

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10
Violence Against Others

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11
Substance Abuse

To score 1 for this item, there must be more than one element of substance abuse present; alcohol use at the index assault is not sufficient by itself. The elements are listed from most common to least common according to the ODARA development research.

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12
Assault on Victim When Pregnant

Information for scoring this item can come from sources other than criminal justice documentation, and the incident does not need to be known to the police.

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13
Barriers to Victim Support

This item covers the victim's circumstances at the time of the index assault and should be scored on the basis of information documented as close to the time of the index assault as possible. The elements are listed from most common to least common according to the ODARA development research.

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