Evaluation of Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies for Domestic Violence Cases in the State College, Pennsylvania, Police Department, 1999-2000

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Adams Mastrofski
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Police Department ◽  
The State ◽  
State College ◽  
Arrest Policies

Police Response to Domestic Violence: The Influence of Extralegal Factors on Arrest Decisions

Partner Abuse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Mele
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Police Department ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Response ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Extralegal Factors ◽  
Victim Gender ◽  
Urban Police

AbstractThis study examines extralegal factors that predict arrest in domestic violence cases from one urban police department in the state of New Jersey. Initial analysis revealed that 40% of reported cases (N = 5,728) resulted in the suspect’s arrest. Bivariate analyses identified several predictors of arrest, including victim gender, victim/suspect relationship, cohabitation, and victim unemployment. At the multivariate level, cohabitation and victim unemployment were the strongest predictors of arrest. These findings are discussed in the context of a growing body of literature that examines the influence of extralegal factors on arrest decisions in domestic violence cases.

Bored: A Pandemic of Domestic Violence

Partner Abuse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Doris Sommer ◽  
Josefa Ros Velasco ◽  
Marco Abarca
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
The State ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Reasonable Answers

Alarm spreads among potential victims of domestic violence as cases multiply during the confinement required by COVID19, and authorities face the growing frustration of not knowing how to respond. The question of what to do begs the question of why the lockdown increases domestic violence. Loss of jobs, alcohol, and psychological stress are reasonable answers; but they are predictable and don't suggest new approaches for remedy. This essay considers an unsuspected if obvious trigger of violence at home. Boredom. It is a stressor that becomes intolerable as the pandemic lockdown continues. Since boredom is a volatile condition associated with the lack of engagement, and since boredom is resolved either creatively or violently, an evident program for primary prevention would be to provide disgruntled and potentially aggressive intimate partners with engaging activities. These activities address a responsibility of the State. When the State turns homes into places of involuntary confinement, it levies serious limitations on a range of human rights. Therefore, the State's obligation to address risks, including boredom, is a corollary to restricting freedom of movement. Perhaps the strategy to provide programs will face objections and skepticism. Why should potential perpetrators of violence be beneficiaries of pleasurable programs? And how can pleasure be a remedy when it carries a stigma of irresponsibility or sin? But a practical response to the spike in domestic violence will have to overcome this irrational stigma to become more strategic than moralizing (Sommer, 2014). We should address the spiral of aggression in ways that are effective, not reactive.

A Fraught Pairing

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Nanasi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
The State ◽  
U Visa

This chapter examines the tensions inherent in the U visa, a form of immigration relief that provides survivors of intimate partner violence a path to lawful status. Receipt of the U visa is contingent upon compulsory and continuing cooperation with law enforcement, which does not reflect the reality of the lives of many survivors of domestic violence, especially immigrant victims, who are uniquely unable, fearful or disinclined to engage with the state. As such, the vulnerabilities the U visa was intended to address are exacerbated and benefits to police and prosecutors are achieved at the expense of the victims Congress sought to protect.

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