The Impact of Arrest on Domestic Violence

Buzawa, Eve S.; Buzawa, Carl G.

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“…In fact, the history of how warrantless arrest laws for DV perpetration proliferated across the United States has been well-documented (see, for example, Buzawa and Buzawa 1993) as depending upon the growing women's rights movement that agitated for DV to be viewed as a crime; a political climate in which the populace and lawmakers favored more punitive measures for offenders; high-profile court cases against jurisdictions, such as Thurman v. the City of Torrington (1984) in which a victim of DV successfully sued the city for not giving her equal protection under the law; and an influential research experiment that suggested that perpetrators of DV were less likely to recidivate when they were randomly assigned to the arrest versus standard response groups (Sherman and Berk 1984). Therefore, no additional measures were employed to control for endogeneity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mandatory, Preferred, or Discretionary: How the Classification of Domestic Violence Warrantless Arrest Laws Impacts Their Estimated Effects on Intimate Partner Homicide

2011

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Mandatory, Preferred, or Discretionary: How the Classification of Domestic Violence Warrantless Arrest Laws Impacts Their Estimated Effects on Intimate Partner Homicide

2011

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“…see Buzawa and Buzawa, 1993;Coker, 2004;Miller, 2003). It is noteworthy, then, that the literature related to criminal prosecution of child abuse is far smaller.…”

Section: Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse: Continuities And mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intimate partner violence and child abuse: a child‐centred perspective

Goddard

Bedi

2009

Child Abuse Review

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A substantial body of literature assessing the impact of intimate partner violence on children and associations between intimate partner violence and child abuse now exists. Central to knowledge about these areas of practice and research is a robust, child-centred consideration of some of the more challenging conceptual issues they give rise to. In this paper, we aim to stimulate debate by presenting a critical, child-centred perspective on the intersection between intimate partner violence and child abuse. Initially, we provide the context for the review by presenting a brief overview of the literature. We then consider three central issues from a child-centred perspective. We discuss the language used to describe children forced to live with intimate partner violence, and the importance of hearing children's perspectives on their experiences of such confl ict. Finally, we consider similarities and differences between the intimate partner violence and child abuse fi elds from a child-centred viewpoint. We conclude that increasing conceptual clarity around these issues will enhance research in the fi eld, and ultimately improve interventions designed to protect children forced to live with intimate partner violence. Copyright

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“…Prior to the late 1970s, it was not uncommon for law enforcement to ignore calls from DV victims. Police officers who responded to DV calls generally attempted to diffuse the immediate situation by employing conflict resolution tactics, including mediation and separation (Buzawa & Buzawa, 1993;Maxwell, Garner, & Fagan, 2001). Under the common law, officers were precluded from making warrantless arrests for misdemeanor crimes of DV, as most DV crimes are classified (Buzawa & Buzawa, 2003), even if there was probable cause to suggest that the alleged perpetrator committed the crime (Harvey, 1994).…”

Section: Abstract Domestic Violence Legal Intervention Batterers Cmentioning

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“…The women's movement continued to gain in strength and agitated for DV to be treated as a crime (Buzawa & Buzawa, 1993). Concurrently, the political landscape was less rehabilitative and more punitive toward criminal offenders (Buzawa & Buzawa, 1993); for example, the juvenile justice system experienced changes that made it easier for juveniles to be charged and tried as adults and imposed increased retributive sanctions on such offenders to "provide consequences to the lawbreaker" (Bazemore & Umbreit, 1995). Furthermore, the U.S. Attorney at MICHIGAN STATE UNIV LIBRARIES on October 9, 2014 jiv.sagepub.com Downloaded from General's Family Violence Task Force recommended arrest as an appropriate response to family violence (Hart, 1984).…”

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A Summary and Analysis of Warrantless Arrest Statutes for Domestic Violence in the United States

Zeoli

Norris

Brenner

2010

J Interpers Violence

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In the United States, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes that allow police officers to make warrantless arrests for domestic violence given probable cause; however, state laws differ from one another in multiple, important ways. Research on domestic violence warrantless arrest laws rarely describe them as anything more than discretionary, preferred, or mandatory, either within their analyses or within the texts of their publications; researchers, and their audiences, may not be aware of the vast and potentially important differences among these laws. In this article, we list the domestic violence warrantless arrest laws for each state, and discuss them in terms of five common elements: the phrasing of the arrest authority; whether additional factors to domestic violence are required to trigger the arrest authority; qualifications to the arrest authority; time limits for warrantless arrest to occur; and whether police officers are required to report why they made a dual or no arrest. We then analyze the common elements of the laws, paying particular attention to how they may encourage or discourage the arrest of alleged domestic violence perpetrators. It is critical that researchers, advocates, and policymakers are aware of these variations in state statutes when conducting or interpreting research or making policy recommendations.

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The Impact of Arrest on Domestic Violence

Cited by 57 publications

References 8 publications

Mandatory, Preferred, or Discretionary: How the Classification of Domestic Violence Warrantless Arrest Laws Impacts Their Estimated Effects on Intimate Partner Homicide

Mandatory, Preferred, or Discretionary: How the Classification of Domestic Violence Warrantless Arrest Laws Impacts Their Estimated Effects on Intimate Partner Homicide

Intimate partner violence and child abuse: a child‐centred perspective

A Summary and Analysis of Warrantless Arrest Statutes for Domestic Violence in the United States

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