Introduction
Domestic violence is regarded as a serious offense for women, their families and society. Over the past three decades, the criminal justice system as well as social intervention responses to women victimized by domestic violence has evolved a great deal. Historically, domestic violence affairs have been viewed as a normal part of intimate relationships. In the 1970’s domestic violence began to be known as a crime requiring intervention by the criminal justice system. The very first battered women’s shelter opened in the United States (US) in the 1970’s. The advance to reduce intimate partner abuse has solely depended on the criminal justice system. The Violence against Women Act (VAWA) and other national and state financing streams …show more content…
Historically, domestic violence affairs have been handled in such a way that it was not a matter of law enforcement. Prior to the 1970’s, in the U.S there weren’t any police agencies that provided training on domestic violence occurrences, and there was only very few written policies on the subject (Hendricks, 1991). Domestic violence was seen as a family concern. With domestic violence being seen as a family concerned it called for non-intervention by law enforcement professionals. The reluctance of law enforcement professionals on taking action is deeply moved by private point of views and sex role stereotypes. (Browne, 1995; Dobash & Dobash, 1980; Edwards, 1987; Whetstone, 2001). While viewing domestic violence as a family concern intervention by law enforcement lacks and therefore causes police officers to be apathetic to victims, addressing matters without apprehending (Dobash & Dobash, 1992). Non-intervention results in women being left hopeless with little to no choice, but to leave the relationship or put up with the abuse. …show more content…
The goal of this experiment was to scrutinize the relationship between arrests and redundancy to domestic violence (Sherman and Berk 1984). In the study, personnel used one of the few options at random when responding to domestic violence occurrences: conciliation, apprehension, or disunity. Upon completion of the study the results revealed that arrest was the more powerful deterrent of recidivism for batters than casual response techniques carried out by law enforcement personnel (Sherman and Berk 1984). Quickly getting the offender away from the victimized woman led to them feeling more
Domestic violence is regarded as a serious offense for women, their families and society. Over the past three decades, the criminal justice system as well as social intervention responses to women victimized by domestic violence has evolved a great deal. Historically, domestic violence affairs have been viewed as a normal part of intimate relationships. In the 1970’s domestic violence began to be known as a crime requiring intervention by the criminal justice system. The very first battered women’s shelter opened in the United States (US) in the 1970’s. The advance to reduce intimate partner abuse has solely depended on the criminal justice system. The Violence against Women Act (VAWA) and other national and state financing streams …show more content…
Historically, domestic violence affairs have been handled in such a way that it was not a matter of law enforcement. Prior to the 1970’s, in the U.S there weren’t any police agencies that provided training on domestic violence occurrences, and there was only very few written policies on the subject (Hendricks, 1991). Domestic violence was seen as a family concern. With domestic violence being seen as a family concerned it called for non-intervention by law enforcement professionals. The reluctance of law enforcement professionals on taking action is deeply moved by private point of views and sex role stereotypes. (Browne, 1995; Dobash & Dobash, 1980; Edwards, 1987; Whetstone, 2001). While viewing domestic violence as a family concern intervention by law enforcement lacks and therefore causes police officers to be apathetic to victims, addressing matters without apprehending (Dobash & Dobash, 1992). Non-intervention results in women being left hopeless with little to no choice, but to leave the relationship or put up with the abuse. …show more content…
The goal of this experiment was to scrutinize the relationship between arrests and redundancy to domestic violence (Sherman and Berk 1984). In the study, personnel used one of the few options at random when responding to domestic violence occurrences: conciliation, apprehension, or disunity. Upon completion of the study the results revealed that arrest was the more powerful deterrent of recidivism for batters than casual response techniques carried out by law enforcement personnel (Sherman and Berk 1984). Quickly getting the offender away from the victimized woman led to them feeling more