Are you or someone you love in danger of being seriously injured or killed?  It is difficult to know what kind of danger you or someone you love are in when exposed to someone who has previously been abusive. The checklist below is sometimes used as a guideline. Each category of behavior is indicative of risk for further abuse. The more that are present in a relationship, the higher risk for the woman or man in the relationship.

Remember, between 40% to 60% of all women who are killed, die at the hands of a former or current partner who abused them. Obviously, that means that the other half were not known to be abuse victims. But, you can prevent unnecessary deaths or serious injuries by taking precautions if some of these factors are present in your relationship or that of someone you love!
 

Take the Lethality Scale. 

Frequency of man's use of violence is escalating.

Severity of man's violence is escalating.

Man's threats to kill woman or others.

Frequency of intoxication from alcohol and other drug use.

Man's threats to harm children.

Man's forced or threatened sex acts.

Man's or woman's suicide threats or attempts.

Weapons kept at home or easily accessible.

Psychiatric impairment of man or woman.

Proximity of man and woman - how close to where they both work and live.

Man's need for control of contact around the children.

Current life stresses in man's or woman's lives.

Man's previous criminal history.

Man's attitudes towards violence.

Presence of a new relationship for either man or woman.