The Homicide Timeline
The Homicide Timeline is a framework for understanding risk escalation patterns in intimate partner relationships where coercive control and stalking are present. The timeline represents a typical journey identified in research which explains how and why risk may be escalating.
The webinar training is designed for professionals who respond to disclosures of domestic abuse or stalking, and those who manage offenders. It explains what coercive control and stalking are, and what the patterns might look like. The training focuses on the perpetrator’s thinking and motivations.
This taster session is designed to give a brief introduction and overview to the Homicide Timeline.
The training is on Tuesday 9 December, 10am to 12pm and is presented by Professor Jane Monckton Smith and her team and includes Jane explaining the research background to the Homicide Timeline, providing her expertise on coercive control and stalking as well as presentation slides and films from families bereaved through intimate partner homicide.
Course structure and overview
- Introduction to the training and research
- Introduction to coercive control and stalking
- The eight stages of the Homicide Timeline
By the end of the webinar, you will
- understand coercive control, the importance of chronic fear in coercively controlling relationships and how controlling patterns are introduced and maintained
- understand the rejected stalker is the most common type of stalker and the most likely to carry out threats
- be familiar with the eight stages of the Homicide Timeline
- be able to use the Homicide Timeline as a tool to identify the stage at which a perpetrator is in their psychological journey.
This event is for professionals only. If you
- work for the City of Edinburgh Council, please register on My Learning Hub.
- do not work for the City of Edinburgh Council, please sign up using our homicide timeline form.
Professor Jane Monckton Smith OBE
Jane is a Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire with a specialism in homicide. She has authored a new theoretical framework for tracking homicide risk in cases of coercive control and stalking that has had wide international impact.
Jane is the author of the influential book ‘In Control - Dangerous Relationships and how they end in Murder’, which has sold thousands of copies worldwide.
In addition to academic work, she maintains a wide portfolio of professional and case work, providing analyses for police and the legal profession, expert reports and training.
