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Week 4 - Policing DV - Coggle Diagram
Week 4 - Policing DV
Benefits of arrest
Giving the victim time to feel safer and engage with support
disrupting an established pattern of abusive behaviour
Allowing time to pursue enquiry
Put in place support services
Generating evidence - help with future offending
Being able to impose bail conditions to protect the victim
Sends a message that DV is not tolerated
Victim taken seriously
Change in Policing DV
Woman's liberation Movement
Court Cases
Criminological Research
Expanding police and law
Changing policy
Procedural justice concepts
Listening
Decisions on objective criteria
Treating people with respect
Competent decision making
Ability to fix mistakes
Victim Choice - Victim empowerment
Taking choice away
Symbolism of DV as serious
CJS responsible for crime
Preference for non-cooperation is invalid
Research - Minneapolis DV experiment
Testing Arrest V informal responses
FINDING = arrest reduced the recidivism rate by half against the same victim within the following 6 months (detterent)
Replication studies with variable results
Was not conclusive, and arrest (deterrence) had different impacts in different states
Challenges facing DV victims - 3 perceptions
Ecological Model
Expectancy dis-confirmation theory
Procedural justice concepts
Factors in DV
+Arrest
Seriousness of incident
Weapon involved
Witness present
-Arrest
Suspect left the scene
Victim uncooperative
Victim unlikely to prosecute
Defining DV in the police
Myhill and Johnson
Police interpretation of policy
Cuffing
Taking no further action
Not recording all crimes