Israeli courts have adopted a model for the detection of a ‘dangerous’ family framework which was developed by the Social Services department. The parameters used for the detection of dangerous family frameworks include: the severity of the violent act, the frequency of violence, the degree of reconciliation afterwards, which family members are victims, the relationship between perpetrator and victim(s), the perpetrator’s emotional disturbance, the family members’ perceptions of risk , the victim(s) emotional state, the degree of admission/denial of violence by the perpetrator, suitability of the perpetrator for therapy and degree of accessibility of the perpetrator to weapons and his addictiveness.