Strangulation Prevention and Research Centre

The Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention and Hope for Alliance International have created numerous resources to increase and improve strangulation recognition and response. Visit their website for information, webinars, and resources including:

• providing a coordinated community response to strangulation;
• the physiological consequences of strangulation;
• investigating and documenting strangulation offences;
• bench guides for judges;
• sexual strangulation / sexual choking;
• advocacy toolkits for survivors;
• recantation and strangulation;
• strangulation and suspicious deaths; and
• upcoming training opportunities.

Selected list of TISP webinars:

• Recantation, Domestic Violence and Strangulation (2024)
• The Truth and Consequences of Strangulation (Choking) during Sex (2023)
• Identifying the Dominant Aggressor from the Perspective of Survivors (2023)
• Understanding the Rage and Lethality of Men who Strangle (2023)
• Using Experts in Strangulation Cases (2023)
• 2022 Imaging Recommendations for the Patient who has been Strangled: Saving the Lives of Survivors (2023)

IFAS was established in the UK in 2022 following the criminalization of strangulation. Their website provides resources including:

• domestic homicide reviews and strangulation findings;
• guidelines for clinical management of non-fatal strangulation;
• strangulation in the media;
• a report on surviving strangulation and its impact on survivors;
• research on children and strangulation;
• a podcast on how to talk to teens about strangulation; and
• regulation of the porn industry and outlawing the inclusion of strangulation in pornography.

In the Know - a resource from New Zealand that provides information on strangulation, rough sex, and pornography