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478 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Role and Context of Agency Responses To Domestic Violence -- Domestic violence revolution: taking stock -- Is the domestic violence revolution a success? -- Challenges before us -- Challenges to a criminal justice approach: -- Should criminal justice intervention be victim-centered? -- Evolution of this text -- Organization of this edition -- Scope Of The Problem. Defining And Measuring Domestic Violence -- What is domestic violence? -- Official survey data on domestic violence -- Controversies over definitions -- Statutorily defined relationships -- Domestic violence offenses -- Stalking as coercive control -- Who are the victims? -- Role of gender -- Same-sex violence -- Age -- Marital status -- Socioeconomic status -- Racial and ethnic variations -- Impact of domestic violence: -- Injuries -- Psychological and quality-of-life effects on victims -- Monetary costs -- Impact on children and adolescents -- Specialized problem of stalking in intimate relationships -- Impact of stalking -- Matters Of History, Faith, And Society -- Historic attitudes on domestic violence: -- English common law and European history -- Early American strategies and interventions -- Enforcement in the Mid-1800s -- Continuing importance of history: -- Historical pull back -- Biblical and Koranic basis for abuse -- Why religion remains important -- Domestic violence rates among the faithful -- Effect of religion on potential batterers -- Effect of religion on potential victims -- Can religion become part of the solution to domestic violence? -- Do societies hold different standards for some religious communities? -- Social critique perspective on history and religion -- Feminist perspective -- Theoretical Explanations For Domestic Violence: -- Chapter overview -- Complexity of analyzing intimate partner abuse -- Individual focused theories of violence: -- Role and use of batterer typologies -- Classifying batterers by severity and frequency of abuse -- Typing batterers by their generality of violence and psychopathology -- Who is most at risk of battering? -- Biology and abuse: are some batterers "pre-wired" for abuse? -- Question of the mind? -- Biological- and psychological-based fear and anxiety -- Can psychology explain domestic abuse? -- Personality disorders and mental illness -- Anger control and the failure to communicate -- Low self-esteem -- Conflict resolution capabilities and the failure to communicate -- Immature personality -- Is substance abuse the linkage among sociobiological, psychological, and sociological theories? -- Are certain families violent? -- Social control-exchange of violence -- Family-based theories -- Violent family -- Learning theory -- Is domestic violence an intergenerational problem? -- Sociodemographic correlates of violence and underserved populations -- Poverty and unemployment -- Ethnicity and domestic violence -- Domestic violence in the African American community -- Native Americans -- Selective Screening : Barriers To Intervention -- Victim case screening: -- Failure to report crime -- Who reports and who does not -- Why has victim reporting increased? -- Does social class affect the decision to report? -- Bystander screening -- Police response: -- Police screening -- Why police did not historically consider domestic abuse "real" policing -- Organizational disincentives -- Are domestic violence calls extraordinarily dangerous to the police? -- Structural impediments to police action -- Classical bias against arrest -- Prosecutorial screening prior to adjudication -- Traditional patterns of nonintervention by prosecutors -- Prosecutorial autonomy: -- Reality of budgetary pressures -- Prioritizing prosecutorial efforts to targeted offenses -- Impact of these constraints on the prosecutorial response -- Unique factors limiting prosecutorial effectiveness -- Screening as a result of organizational incentives -- Case attrition by victims: self-doubts and the complexity of motivation: -- Victim costs in prosecution -- Impact of victim-initiated attrition -- Judicial annoyance: handling battling families: -- Case disposition by the judiciary -- Impetus For Change: -- Political pressure -- Role of research in promoting change: -- Early research -- Evolution of research supporting the primacy of arrest: -- Deterrence as a rationale for police action -- Minneapolis domestic violence experiment: -- Methodological concerns of the MDVE -- Role of publicity in promoting research -- Impact of the MDVE -- Deterrence theory and the MDVE -- Replication Studies: -- Omaha, Nebraska -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Charlotte, North Carolina -- Colorado Springs, Colorado -- Miami, Florida -- Atlanta, Georgia -- New analysis of the data -- Reaction to the replication studies -- Legal liability as an agent for change -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Evolution Of Arrest Preferences: Criminalizing The Societal Response -- Deterrence theory -- Specific deterrence -- General deterrence -- Can arrest be an effective deterrent? -- Can arrests deter the hard-core offender? -- Arrests as punishment: a peculiar use of deterrence theory -- How do police decide which actions to take? -- Arrest as a situational construct -- Situational and incident characteristics: -- Offender absent when police arrive -- Characterization of a crime as a misdemeanor or a felony -- Who called the police? -- Presence of weapons -- Incident injuries -- Presence of children -- Existence of a marital relationship -- Perceived mitigating circumstances -- Criminal history -- Role of the victim in the arrest decision: -- Victim preferences -- Victim behavior and demeanor -- Police perceptions of violence as part of victim's lifestyle -- Assailant behavior and demeanor -- Variations within police departments: -- Gender differences -- Officer age and arrest -- Officer race -- Organizational variations: -- Organizational imperatives -- Variations In Arrest Practices -- Rationale for mandatory arrest -- Advantages of mandatory arrest for victims: -- Societal reasons favoring mandatory arrest practices -- Controversy regarding mandatory arrest: -- Have increased arrests suppressed -- Domestic violence? -- Costs and unintended consequences of arrest -- Arrests and minority populations: a special cases? -- Role of victim satisfaction with police -- Response in reporting revictimization -- Increase in female arrests -- Increase in dual arrests -- Primary aggressor statutes -- Violent family -- Is a uniform arrest policy justified in the context of the diversity of victim needs?: -- Victim preferences -- Does failure to follow victim arrest preferences deter future reporting -- Limitations of police response to stalking -- Variations between police departments -- How police street-level behavior has changed as a result of pro-arrest legislation -- Do organizational policies mediate the impact of mandatory and presumptive arrest statutes?: -- Impact of policies -- Importance of training -- Current training. |
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Role of State and Federal Legislation -- Domestic violence-related laws: -- Early changes in laws -- More recent statutory amendments -- State anti-stalking legislation: -- Initial statutes -- Model code provisions and the second wave of anti-stalking statues -- Recent trends in stalking laws -- Are anti-stalking statues constitutional? -- Gaps in current laws -- Federal legislative response -- Initial efforts -- Violence Against Women Act Of 1994 (VAWA) -- VAWA Reauthorization Act of 2000 -- Federal efforts to combat stalking -- Future legislation -- Case Prosecution: The Journey From A Roadblock To A Change Agent: -- Varied reasons for case attrition: -- Case attrition by victims -- Self-doubles and the complexity of motivation: changes in victim attitudes during the life course of a violent relationship -- Traditional agency attitudes toward prosecution and case screening -- Role of victim behavior and motivation in the decision to prosecute -- Prosecutorial assessment of offender characteristics -- Organizational factors within prosecutor's offices that affect responses -- Imposing procedural barriers: why the system "encouraged victims to abandon prosecution" -- Changing prosecutorial response: -- Have prosecution rates actually increased? -- Victim advocates -- Impact of no-drop policies -- Victims charged with child endangerment -- Likelihood of conviction -- Alternatives to mandatory prosecution -- Civil Courts And The Role Of Restraining Orders -- Tort liability, a possible judicial remedy? -- Role of domestic violence restraining orders -- Process of obtaining protective orders -- Explosive growth of restraining orders -- Growing role of restraining orders: Massachusetts experience -- Advantages of obtaining protective orders -- Limitations of protective orders:-- Should violations of restraining orders be judged by criminal courts?: -- California case -- When will women use restraining orders? -- Are restraining orders effective? -- Are there inherent limits to restraining orders? -- Can restraining orders be misused? -- Complex problem of restraining orders violation: -- Judicial enforcement of restraining orders -- Enforcement of restraining orders after Gonzales -- Is there a "best practice" for obtaining and enforcing restraining orders? -- More potential enhancements to restraining orders -- Models For Judicial Intervention -- Process of measuring judicial change -- Impact of judicial activism: analysis of a case study -- Case disposition at trial: variability in judicial sentencing patterns -- Patterns for domestic compared with non-domestic violence offenders -- Domestic violence courts: the focus on victim needs and offender accountability -- Variety of domestic violence courts -- Types of domestic violence courts -- Goals of domestic violence courts -- Structure and content of domestic violence courts -- What factors contribute to a successful domestic violence court? -- Advantages to domestic violence courts -- Can a family court be effective as a domestic violence court? -- Innovations in New York State -- Implications of the New York State innovations -- Community-Based And Court-Sponsored Diversions -- Restorative justice approaches -- Court-sponsored medication programs: -- Does mediation reduce violence? -- Limits of mediation -- Has mediation reduced domestic violence? -- Family group conferencing -- Peacemaking circles -- Batterer intervention programs: -- Role of batterer intervention programs in a divergent offender group -- Characteristics of batterer intervention programs -- Program characteristics and conditions for participation -- Advantages of batterer intervention programs -- Impact of batterer intervention programs -- Program completion as a marker for successful outcomes -- Types of batterer intervention programs -- When should batterer intervention programs be used? -- Domestic Violence, Health, And The Health System Response: -- Role of health services -- Need for and use of health services by battered women: -- Significance of abuse for female trauma -- Limits of focusing on emergent injury -- Nature of the injuries caused by abuse -- Secondary consequences of abuse -- Real health markers of partner violence and their cumulative effects -- Prevalence and incidence -- Health system response: -- Medical neglect -- Reforming the health system -- Challenges ahead: training, screening, and clinical violence intervention: -- Training -- Screening -- Mandatory reporting -- Clinical violence intervention -- Domestic Violence, Children, And The Institutional Response -- Domestic violence and children's well-being: -- Direct effects of domestic violence on children -- Developmental age: special risks to infants and preschool children -- Indirect effects of exposure to domestic violence on children -- Indirect effects of exposure to domestic violence on children .-- Limits of the research and future direction -- Putting exposure in context -- Child welfare system: -- Mrs Nicholson -- Family court response: -- Domestic violence in custody cases -- Significance of custody decision for victims and children -- Separate planets? -- Battered mother's dilemma -- Future of the child welfare system and the family court response. |
| Summary |
This new edition explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic violence and its prevalence in our society and its causes, the authors cover such key topics as barriers to intervention, variations in arrest practices, the role of state and federal legislation, and case prosecution. Focusing on both victims and offenders, the book includes unique chapters on models for judicial intervention, domestic violence and health, and children and domestic violence. |
| Subject |
Wife abuse -- United States.
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Family violence -- United States -- Prevention.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Buzawa, Carl G., author.
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Stark, Evan, author.
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Buzawa, Eva Schlesinger.
Domestic violence.
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| Added Title |
Domestic violence |
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Integration of criminal justice and human services |
| ISBN |
9781412956390 (cloth) |
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1412956390 (cloth) |
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9781412956406 (pbk.) |
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1412956404 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
648922072 |
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