Abstract
The connection between dating violence and domestic homicide is an understudied but critically important area. Preventing domestic homicides among teens and young adults involves understanding the unique circumstances of this age group as well as the links to dating violence and domestic homicide more broadly. This chapter explores current research on youth, dating violence, and domestic homicide. Drawing from news media coverage, we discuss the cases of Lauren McCluskey, Alice Ruggles, and LaShonda Childs, three young women killed by intimate partners, to explore how these cases fit with our knowledge of risk factors for domestic homicide, and discuss how we might use this knowledge to prevent future deaths. In each case, we see that the available protections were not timely enough or sufficiently strong to keep these young women safe. Drawing from the social–ecological model of violence, we highlight the need to strengthen community- and societal-based responses to dating violence, particularly as it pertains to high-risk cases.
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