The Expertise Centre Gender-Based Violence provides insight into the dynamics, causes, and consequences of domestic violence.

In the project When Barking Dogs Bite, we compare characteristics of fatal and non-fatal domestic violence. The study A New Typology of Partner Killing maps out various perpetrator profiles and contexts.

Additionally, the book Domestic Homicide brings together scientific insights into the mechanisms and patterns of violence. This book offers a synthesis of the literature on domestic homicide, covering its history; the theories supporting it; its various forms such as filicide, intimate partner homicide, parricide, siblicide and familicide; and its prevention. 

The book offers a unique insight into the dynamics of domestic homicides, and debunks some of the common stereotypes surrounding it. It concludes with an overview of the main areas of prevention of domestic homicide and offers recommendations for professionals working in domestic violence services, medical practitioners and mental health services. This book will be of interest to criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists alike, and will be key reading for a range of courses on violence, abuse and aggression.

In one of our recent articles, Flying Under and Through the Radar, we offer an international comparative perspective on evasion tactics used by femicide perpetrators. Thematic analysis reveals seven tactics: social isolation, gaslighting, restricting employment, vilifying external threats, male peer alliances, body territorializing, and disrupting healthcare access. These strategies allowed perpetrators to 'fly under the radar' of peers and institutions, highlighting missed intervention opportunities. Notably, male complicity emerged as a critical enabler, underscoring the community’s role in sustaining coercive dynamics. These findings stress the need to address social and institutional blind spots in femicide prevention, offering actionable insights to disrupt patterns of control before they escalate to lethal violence.

Together, these studies contribute to better-founded policy, effective interventions, and prevention.