Law Enforcement Officers' Attitudes about the Appropriate Responses to Woman Battering

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Belknap
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Police Response ◽  
Arrest Policies ◽  
Woman Battering ◽  
Departmental Affiliation

The debate over the appropriate police response to cases of battered women has intensified over the last two decades, with the majority of the research focusing on the deterrent aspect of pro-arrest policies. By contrast, this study is an examination of 324 law enforcement officers' reported attitudes and preferences regarding arrest and mediation and attitudes about battering victims and offenders. Overall, the findings include far more support for mediation than arrest, and a general tendency of officers to view women claiming to have been battered as non-credible and unworthy of police time. The variable that most strikingly differentiates officers is departmental affiliation, followed by race and sex. These findings affirm the plight of battered women when appealing to the police for assistance, as well as the importance of the departmental orientation and subculture in terms of predicting police response.

Policewomen, Policemen, or Both?: Recruitment and Training Implications for Responses to Woman Battering

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Belknap
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Female Officers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Woman Battering ◽  
And Training

Since the 1970s, police training and recruitment has been impacted by two feminist concerns: the low number of female officers and charges of ineffective responses to women victims of male violence. This study analyzes 324 law enforcement officers' responses as to whether policewomen, policemen, or a combination are best suited to respond to woman battering overall, battering victims, and batterers. In addition, the analysis accounts for the relationship between officers' demographic characteristics and their responses. In short, the findings of this study suggest that policemen are less enthusiastic about policewomen's contributions to policing woman battering, than policewomen are of policemen's contributions. Further, the only demographic characteristics related to the officers' responses are their sex and departmental affiliation. (Officers' race, age, education, rank, shift, years of experience, and SES were unrelated to their responses.)

Unintended Side Effects of Pro-Arrest Policies and Their Race and Class Implications for Battered Women: A Cautionary Note

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Battered Women ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Arrest Policies ◽  
Woman Battering

Increasingly, arrest appears to be the disposition of choice for combatting violence between intimate partners. However, the ramifications of such policies may differentially impact on female victims, particularly those battered women with fewer resources and alternatives who have traditionally placed a greater reliance on police intervention. The residual effects of pro-arrest policies may operate subtly, becoming indiscernible through quantitative analyses of follow-up data and emerging only when qualitative methodologies are employed in conjunction with quantitative methodologies. Although pro-arrest policies are one way to attack the problem of woman battering, the policies become problematic if they disproportionately affect women from minority and lower socio-economic groups, facilitating negative consequences, including possible reoccurrences of violence. This paper raises some of the pertinent issues involved when research fails to capture or address the potential implications of pro-arrest strategies once implemented, and suggests ways to explore the extent and ramifications of these effects.

THE ROLE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN ENSURING THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGALITY DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Ahmedov ◽  
Yuliya Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
75Th Anniversary ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Principle Of Legality

In 2020, the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the soviet people is celebrated over fascism. An important role in achieving this result in the conditions law enforcement officers also provided wartime assistance. The main purpose of their professional activities was to ensure the implementation of principles of legality.

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