Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response.

Buzawa, Eva Schlesinger; Buzawa, Carl G.

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“…Although such violence was a crime in most states, convictions were rare and confined to excessive violence or permanent injury (Logan, Walker, Jordan, & Leukefeld, 2006). After the start of the 20th century, however, systematic legal reforms aimed at violence against women fell temporarily silent (Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003), paralleling the abandonment of reformist approaches to criminal justice (Harris & Rice, 1997).…”

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“…Canada altered its definition of criminal assault: Where wife beating once had been a separate crime subject to imprisonment only if it caused bodily harm, it now was classified as a form of assault in general. Starting with the Pennsylvania Protection From Abuse Act in 1977, by the end of the 20th century most U.S. statutes came to define assault as intentionally applying or attempting to apply force without consent, or threatening to do so (see Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003, for a review). Many changes eliminated requirements that misdemeanor assaults be witnessed by a police officer.…”

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“…Many changes eliminated requirements that misdemeanor assaults be witnessed by a police officer. Some states created separate offenses for partner violence that permitted constitutionally valid attempts to promote innovative sentences such as court-mandated counseling (Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003). Such reforms might have improved police responses to such domestic-specific situations as harassment, but from a practical perspective, poorly drafted legislation, constitutional challenges, and inadequate judicial resources have limited the impact of these reforms (Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003).…”

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Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

Hilton¹,

Harris²

2009

Preventing Partner Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies.

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In this chapter, we briefly review the history of partner violence in legislation, policing, prosecution, and more recent alternatives to the traditional court process. We then describe the little that is known about the effectiveness of criminal justice responses to partner violence over the past half century. We draw on lessons learned from interventions for other forms of criminal conduct. We take the position that this field embodies some challenges for psychologists and researchers. First, most criminal justice responses to any problem are founded on an essentially lay understanding of human behavior. The implicit assumption is that people (especially men) will use violence if they think they can get away with it, and that punishment will act as both a general and a specific deterrent. Criminal justice responses, once applied, albeit with good intentions and optimism, are rarely subject to rigorous evaluation. However, scientific study reveals that, partly because they are based on too simple an understanding of violent behavior, many criminal justice interventions are ineffective or even counterproductive 219

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Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

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2009

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“…In the English common law tradition, including Australia, the concept of the Office of Constable gives wide scope to police to use their own judgment about which actions are the most appropriate in the circumstances. A major rationale behind this principle was the prevention of political interference (Bryett, Harrison and Shaw, 1997). Statute law is often very general in the language used in describing police powers and responsibilities.…”

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Victim—Offender Mediation and the Gatekeeping Role of Police

Prenzler

Hayes

2000

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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This paper reports on implications for the management of police discretion arising from a Victim—Offender pilot project in Queensland, Australia. The pilot was conducted with juvenile offenders and was highly successful on a range of key outcomes related to restorative justice. However, the project suffered from very low referrals from police, and there were no referrals from the courts, partly because of magistrates' deference to police decisions. As a consequence, many crime victims and young offenders and their caregivers had no opportunity to benefit from reparation. On this basis, a recommendation was made to curtail police discretion severely by building into the case disposition process mandatory consultation regarding mediation with all victims and offenders. This posed a direct challenge to the traditional wide discretionary powers held by police in their gatekeeping role. This research was commissioned by the Queensland Department of Justice. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the Department.

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“…Today, the conceptualization of the nature, causes, and consequences of IPV has expanded and broadened considerably. For instance, although IPV was initially conceptualized as a problem of men's oppression of women, it is now also recognized as a broad public health problem (Campbell, 2002;Hammond, Whitaker, Lutzker, Mercy, & Chin, 2006;Plichta, 2004), a criminal justice problem (Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003), and an economic problem for individual victims and society (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2003). One of the contributing factors to this broadening is the multidisciplinary makeup of the IPV community.…”

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Whitaker¹,

Lutzker²

2009

Preventing Partner Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies.

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The popular media is rife with news on violence between intimate partners. A cursory Internet search of news articles on domestic violence reveals many tragic reports, such as the following: "Police and witness accounts show that 24-year'old Jessica Acree was struck down by her boyfriend with her infant child still in her arms outside of her Crescent Drive home" (Sumner, 2007,1 2), and when police broke down the door, they found Nichole Snipe, 26, in her house with two gunshot wounds to the head. They also found a man who apparently saved a third round for himself. "Some sort of domestic dispute took place, but we're unsure of what the nature of that dispute was," Thornton said. (WSFA 12 News, 2007,1 4) These stories are chilling and are experienced by adults and children every day. Further, as will be seen in this volume, there are lifetime serious mental and physical health sequelae and other societal ills that are related to intimate partner violence (IPV). This volume presents research and theory and discusses services aimed at preventing IPV.The study of aggression and violence among intimate partners has a relatively brief history that has been marked by rapid change. Practice and research on IPV began as part of the women's movement, which sought to

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Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response.

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