They feel like victims.Australia has established several Fixated Threat Assessment Centres that team up police, mental health practitioners and other experts to monitor and manage the risk of lone-actor terrorists and individuals who are fixated on public figures.Now, a world-first research project is hoping to do the same with domestic violence — to prevent family and intimate partner homicides with similar strategies to those being used to tackle terrorism and lone-actor attacks.The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support "When this sense of grievance is attached to an abnormally intense fixation, it can combine with other factors to become a catalyst for extreme violence."The idea for the project was first floated in 2024, following a shocking spate of homicides of women and children