Police Response to Domestic Violence Complaints: Bridging the Present to the Future (From Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century, P 74-95, 1996, Roslyn Muraskin and Albert R. Roberts, eds. - see NCJ-158451)

• NCJ Number: 158458
• Author(s): A R Roberts; V E Henry
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 22 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This article discusses the past, present, and future police response to domestic violence complaints.

Abstract

The article presents a scenario from the year 2010, when the police response to a domestic violence call illustrates the role of technology in increasing the speed and efficiency of police and judicial responsiveness to domestic abuse. The police response to domestic violence in the 1990's has been positively influenced by the women's movement, the results of two national prevalence studies on the extent of domestic violence in the U.S., books and media reporting on battered women, and recent litigation and law reforms. A discussion of data from the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment and replicative programs undertaken in Detroit and Milwaukee, as well as an analysis of a large data set from another ethnically diverse city in the northeastern U.S., focus on trends in domestic violence complaints, and the relationship between simple and aggravated assaults and arrest rates. 6 tables and 34 references