"Handling" Family Violence
Situational Determinants of Police Arrest in Domestic Disturbances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, Donileen R Loseke |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 317-346 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053608 |
| OpenAlex | W2335402883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 23 |
The recent "discovery" of family violence, particularly violence between spouses, has elicited attention from social scientists and policy makers. Police intervention in domestic disputes is a primary focus. Critiques of police practice have often centered on police failure to arrest offenders in domestic violence incidents. Yet, the literature to date reveals little effort to examine systematically the discretionary role of police in domestic disputes. With data drawn from 262 official police reports concerning domestic disturbances, the propensity of police to make arrests is examined through a variety of exogenous variables. Police arrests, we find, reflect the immediate circumstances of police-citizen encounters
Criminology · Domestic violence · Medical emergency · Poison control · Situational ethics · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 87 |
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| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2025 (46) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |