DVDRT Report 2022

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Orange County Domestic Violence Death Review Team (DVDRT) analyzed county coroner case files from 2006 to 2017, after prosecutions concluded, reviewing each case and life lost to determine trends in domestic violence from which to develop recommendations for community prevention and intervention initiatives to reduce and eradicate domestic violence. This executive summary includes some of the trends discovered by the DVDRT. For the purposes of this summary, the DVDRT has defined domestic violence fatalities as “deaths caused by an intimate partner.” If additional fatalities occurred outside of the intimate partner relationship while the perpetrator committed the intimate partner homicide, these fatalities were also deemed domestic violence fatalities.