When Women Tell: Intimate Partner Violence and the Factors Related to Police Notification

We analyze how victim perceptions of mandatory arrest policies, perpetrator substance use, and presence of children are related to decisions to invoke law enforcement assistance. Logistic regression was used on survey responses from women receiving care in domestic violence shelters. Results suggest...

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Published in:Violence against women 2015-01, Vol.21 (1), p.65-86
Main Authors: Novisky, Meghan A., Peralta, Robert L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Arrests
Domestic violence
Domestic Violence - legislation & jurisprudence
Family Violence
Female
Females
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Intimacy
Intimate Partner Violence - economics
Intimate Partner Violence - psychology
Intimate Partner Violence - statistics & numerical data
Law enforcement
Law Enforcement - methods
Methodology (Data Collection)
Middle Aged
Partner Abuse
Perceptions
Police
Police - statistics & numerical data
Police - utilization
Policing
Probability
Public policy
Public Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Shelters
Substance Abuse
Substance use
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Victims
Victims of crime
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Summary:We analyze how victim perceptions of mandatory arrest policies, perpetrator substance use, and presence of children are related to decisions to invoke law enforcement assistance. Logistic regression was used on survey responses from women receiving care in domestic violence shelters. Results suggest that as victim support for mandatory arrest increases, the odds of law enforcement notification of the abuse also increase. Accordingly, mandatory arrest may simply be reducing the probability of reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) among those who do not support the policy, instead of reducing IPV. Results also suggest that perpetrator substance use plays a significant role in law enforcement notification.
ISSN:1077-8012
1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/1077801214564078