Course of Domestic Abuse Among Chicago's Elderly: Risk Factors, Protective Behaviors, and Police Intervention, 2006-2009

Amendola, Karen L.; Slipka, Meghan; Hamilton, Edwin E.; Whitman, J. L.

doi:10.3886/icpsr29041

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“…Enhancing feelings of self-efficacy in problem solving may also be especially critical for encouraging older women to report abuse and take explicit steps to protect themselves from further mistreatment. Recent research suggests that abused older men may be more likely to report their mistreatment to the police, which in turn increases the likelihood of continued, self-protective behavior (Amendola, Slipka, Hamilton, & Whitman, 2010). Given the high rates of elder abuse by victims’ adult children (Lachs et al, 1997; Naughton et al, 2011), rigid cross-cultural stereotypes about motherhood and self-sacrifice for one’s child may provide an additional barrier to help seeking for older women.…”

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PROTECT: A Pilot Program to Integrate Mental Health Treatment Into Elder Abuse Services for Older Women

Sirey

Halkett

Chambers

et al. 2015

Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect

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The goal of this pilot program was to test the usefulness of adapted Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) and anxiety management, called PROTECT, integrated into elder abuse services to reduce depression and improve self-efficacy. Depressed women victims were randomized to receive elder abuse resolution services combined with either PROTECT or a mental health referral. At follow-up, the PROTECT group showed greater reduction in depressive symptoms and endorsed greater improved self-efficacy in problem-solving when compared to those in the Referral condition. These preliminary findings support the potential usefulness of PROTECT to alleviate depressive symptoms and enhance personal resources among abused older women.

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PROTECT: A Pilot Program to Integrate Mental Health Treatment Into Elder Abuse Services for Older Women

Sirey

Halkett

Chambers

et al. 2015

Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect

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“…We were also interested in how the quantity of evidence described in each of our evidentiary connection conditions would map onto a scale that scientists associated with the National Police Foundation developed in collaboration with police officers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges to quantify the strength of the evidence against a suspect (Strength of Evidence Scale; Amendola & Slipka, 2009). The scale uses 5-point Likert items, where five means that the evidence is particularly strong in linking the crime to the identified suspect and one means that the evidence is exceptionally weak in linking the crime to the identified suspect.…”

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“…Ratings are provided for 28 types of evidence falling within six categories—physical evidence, suspect statement information, suspect history, victim characteristics, witness characteristics, and identification information—as well as an overall rating of evidentiary strength. Exemplars of the types of evidence that would merit a particular score on the scale are provided to assist the raters (see Amendola & Slipka, 2009, for the full scale). The scale has validity for predicting judicial outcomes (Gould et al, 2014).…”

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“…Finally, we asked participants to describe the evidence they had to suggest the suspect committed the crime in advance of the last three identification procedures they conducted. For this work, research assistants who were blind to condition and to the study hypotheses coded the data using the Strength of Evidence Scale (Amendola & Slipka, 2009).…”

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Evidence strength (insufficiently) affects police officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.

Katzman¹

2022

Law and Human Behavior

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Objective: We examined whether variations in the strength of the evidentiary connection between a suspect and the crime under investigation affected officers' decisions to place suspects into an identification procedure and whether education about the problems associated with base-rate neglect sensitized officers to variations in evidentiary connection. Method: Police officers (N = 279; age range = 24-70; 86% male) read a hypothetical crime scenario, adopting the role of the lead investigator. The scenarios varied in how closely the suspect was connected to the crime (evidentiary connection: weak vs. strong). Before reading the crime scenarios, half of the participants received education about the relationship between the base rate of guilt among suspects placed in lineups and the prevalence of mistaken identifications (education: present vs. absent). Officers indicated whether they would conduct an identification procedure with a witness based on the evidence they currently had against the suspect. Hypotheses: We expected that participants would better distinguish between the strong and weak evidentiary connection conditions when education was present than when it was absent. Results: Education did not sensitize officers to the strength of the evidence connecting the suspect to the crime under investigation, but officers were sensitive to variations in evidentiary connection without benefit of the educational intervention. However, a majority of officers were willing to subject a suspect to an identification procedure even when there was no evidence connecting the suspect to the crime. Conclusions: Officers' decisions about placing suspects in lineups reflect some level of base-rate neglect that remained even after education about the importance of increasing the ratio of culprit-present to culprit-absent lineups for decreasing mistaken identifications. Public Significance StatementEyewitness misidentifications are the leading cause of wrongful convictions. Police officers reported that they would be less likely to place a suspect in a lineup when the evidence connecting the suspect to the crime was weak, yet a majority of officers were willing to subject a suspect to identification procedures even when there was no evidence connecting the suspect to the crime under investigation. This willingness to conduct identification procedures in the absence of evidence connecting the suspect to the crime puts innocent suspects at risk of misidentification.

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Course of Domestic Abuse Among Chicago's Elderly: Risk Factors, Protective Behaviors, and Police Intervention, 2006-2009

Cited by 2 publications

References 20 publications

PROTECT: A Pilot Program to Integrate Mental Health Treatment Into Elder Abuse Services for Older Women

PROTECT: A Pilot Program to Integrate Mental Health Treatment Into Elder Abuse Services for Older Women

Evidence strength (insufficiently) affects police officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.

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