Explaining immunisation against violence against the person in Wales and its implications for a narrative approach to evidence-based policy-making

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Explaining immunisation against violence against the person in Wales and itsimplications for a narrative approach to evidence-based policymaking.With this PhD studentship, I would seek to look at evidence-basedpolicymaking from a different perspective by studying those who areimmunised against violence, even though they may be at risk, rather thanthose who are already committing said violence.During my time as a Research Assistant at the Crime and Security ResearchInstitute (CSRI) I was responsible for creating an exploratory coding frameworkand building a repository for Welsh safeguarding reports - namely DomesticHomicide, Mental Health Homicide and Adult Practice reviews.As part of my research, I saw a trend in life patterns where perpetrators andfamily members were interviewed as part of the review process. I stronglybelieve that this would benefit from further study. There are many in theperiphery of these reviews who are at risk, yet never suffer violence orperpetrate it themselves. Looking at these alternative narratives can helpreveal 'unknown unknowns' from a policy perspective and can serve to betterinform both policy creation and safeguarding measures.Although my personal interest is in fatal violence inside the home, I would beparticularly interested to explore issues of non-fatal violence and comorbiditywith this studentship. Often, we see those that are at the centre of domestichomicide reviews have a record of prior violence that they have perpetratedoutside the home on others (usually Police officers). With mental healthhomicide reviews, we see a similar pattern of behaviour - even though everyMHHR is not necessarily domestic in nature, there is often a large overlap thatwill see a DHR and an MHHR being commissioned for each offence. There arealso elements of this 'immunisation' against violence in adult practice reviews,where high risk individuals feature in the narrative of the reports but have notcommitted any crimes.I should like to undertake a mixed-methods approach with this studentship -using lifetime interviews and focus groups for narrative establishment, with astrong grounding in secondary data analysis to relate this to what we alreadyknow about interpersonal violence in Wales.