Calling the Shots

How Family Courts Address the Firearms Ban in Protection Orders

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12437060
AutoresRuth E Fleury‐steiner (0000-0003-4493-5951, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, autor correspondente), Susan L Miller (0000-0002-7886-2079, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA), Ava T Carcirieri (0000-0002-2069-4148, University of Delaware), Ava Carcirieri (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA)
Ano2016
Volume23
Fascículo9
Páginas1140-1151
Data de publicação2016-07-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801216656828
PMID27486128
OpenAlexW2473459409
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas18

Access to firearms increases the risk of a batterer killing his partner. Moreover, firearms may be more common in homes where intimate partner abuse has occurred. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 banned possession of firearms by individuals subject to civil protection orders. Yet little research has focused on how this ban is communicated to survivors and batterers. Drawing on systematic observations of protection order hearings, the current study explores factors related to judicial discussion of the ban in court. Implications for improving protection orders and for increasing battered women's safety are discussed

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