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SURVIVING STRANGULATION: FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
TRAINING FACULTY
KELSEY MCKAY; Attorney & Consultant, McKay Training & Consulting, LLC & President of the non-profit, RESPOND Against Violence
DR. SCOTT HAMPTON; Director, Ending the Violence
DAVE THOMAS; Senior Law Enforcement Consultant
DR. KHARA BREEDEN; Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Forensic Nurse Examiners (TXFNE)
ANDREA ZAFERES; Medicolegal Death Investigator, Forensic Aquatic Consulting & Training, LLC
Conference on Crimes Against Women:
Strangulation Pre-Conference
In cases involving gender-based violence, practitioners often rely on physical violence and injury to determine criminal accountability, and the limits and complexities of the legal system are not designed to fully consider contextual evidence. As a result, investigations and prosecutions can fail to identify the impact of trauma, the necessity of survival, or the role coercion plays in the decision making of survivors. When this happens, survivors can be criminalized, predators avoid accountability, and we miss valuable opportunities to prevent further harm.