ABSTRACT
This chapter subjects the concern with the risks of counting articulated in earlier chapters to closer scrutiny. It considers the ways in which a uniform, unifying, and forensic understanding of risk has permeated understandings of the risk factors associated with intimate femicide and the practices of risk assessment informing policy responses to intimate partner violence more generally as a means of preventing intimate femicides. We conclude by suggesting that the presence of time inertia and risk inertia contribute to the devaluation of the lives lost as a result of intimate femicide.
