Child fatality review boards are familiar to many health, social service and legal professionals. Such boards (also called "teams" or "committees") review suspicious or unexpected deaths of children by reviewing the specific circumstances of a child's death. Following the review, the board may recommend prevention measures so that a similar death does not occur in the future. Similar boards exist in the domestic violence field. The object is to identify accurate historical information regarding the victim and perpetrator in order to detect trends, and to monitor the impact and efforts of health, social service, and justice agencies in an effort to reduce the number of fatalities (or near-fatalities) due to domestic violence.