Negotiating domestic violence : police, criminal justice and victims
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Negotiating domestic violence : police, criminal justice and victims
(Clarendon studies in criminology)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-244) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the factors which shape the criminal justice response to domestic violence in the light of policy changes at the beginning of the 1990s which aimed to increase arrest rates. In particular, the book discusses the needs and expectations of victims and examines how their choices impact on decisions made by police and prosecutors. Many books on the criminal justice response to domestic violence start from the premise that withdrawal of complaints by
victims and the subsequent discontinuance of cases, represents some kind of failure on the part of the agencies involved and that victims would benefit from greater determination by police to prosecute offenders wherever possible. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that the criminal justice
system as it presently operates is capable of responding effectively to the needs of victims of domestic violence. This book throws doubt on the validity of these assumptions.
Table of Contents
- 1. Legal Rules, Policies and Police Practices
- 2. Conceptual and Methodological Issues
- 3. The Control Room: the first stage in the decision-making process
- 4. The Cultural and Structural Determinants of Police Decision-Making
- 5. The Situational Determinants of Police Decision-Making
- 6. Understanding Prosecution Decisions
- 7. In the Victim's Interest?
- 8. Interrogating the Role of the Victim
- Bibliography
- Index
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