A Summary of Personal Protection Order Statutes in the United States

DeJong, Christina; Burgess‐Proctor, Amanda

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“…Although protection orders are a civil remedy, violation can carry criminal penalties so they often are considered part of the criminal justice response to IPA (e.g., see Buzawa and Buzawa 2003;DeJong and Burgess-Proctor 2006). 2.…”

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“…In this way, no-drop prosecution policies are a corollary of mandatory arrest policies, as both remove control from victims and can result in feelings of disaffection and disempowerment (Mills 1998, Epstein 1999. Additionally, although every state now has protection order legislation, there are disparities in the extent to which state statutes facilitate the protection order process for IPA victims (DeJong and Burgess-Proctor 2006). Finally, evidence that protection orders are effective in preventing re-abuse remains unconvincing (Grau et al 1985, Chaudhuri andDaly 1992).…”

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“…Chiefly, IPA now is widely accepted by criminal justice practitioners and researchers alike as a legitimate legal, social, and criminal problem (Mills 1998). Other gains include: routine implementation of police department policies requiring domestic violence training and/or promoting arrest on domestic violence calls (Robinson 2000, Finn et al 2004); a sustained increase in arrests on behalf of IPA victims ; passage of mandatory arrest, no-drop prosecution, anti-stalking, and other laws intended to improve justice for IPA victims (Mills 1998, Buzawa and; and the establishment of the 'full faith and credit' provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act ensuring enforceability of protection orders across state lines (DeJong and Burgess-Proctor 2006).…”

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Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

Burgess‐Proctor

2012

Journal of Crime and Justice

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To cite this article: Amanda Burgess-Proctor (2012) Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women, Journal of Crime and Justice, 35:1, 68-92, In this analysis I use data from interviews with 22 battered women in two states to explore their criminal justice help-seeking experiences. First, I examine participants' overwhelmingly negative experiences with three criminal justice help-seeking strategies: calling the police, pursuing prosecution of their abusers, and obtaining protection orders. Next, I contextualize these negative experiences by identifying two sources of conflict between help-seeking battered women and the criminal justice system: perception incompatibility and goal incompatibility.Here I also use the narrative data to evaluate women's sense that use of the criminal justice system 'backfired' on them, and identify the consequences of this backfire for disrupting women's help-seeking pathways. I also present, as a counterpoint, women's uniformly positive experiences with two non-criminal justice resources: shelter and support groups services. Finally, I use these findings to identify specific lessons that can be learned to improve the overall criminal justice response to help-seeking battered women.

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2012

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“…Currently, all states have enacted laws authorizing the issuance of general civil protective orders for partner violence cases although eligibility criteria may differ between states (Buzawa & Buzawa, 1996;DeJong & Burgess-Proctor, 2006;Eigenberg et al, 2003).…”

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Protective Orders

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Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Current media portrayal of protective orders is often negative, focusing on weaknesses in how protective orders are obtained and enforced. This review of research findings on protective orders examines issues and suggests areas in need of future research to clarify and improve public policy. More specifically, this review has five main objectives: (a) to provide background information about partner violence and the need for protective orders; (b) to describe what protective orders are, how many women obtain them, and the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining protective orders; (c) to examine characteristics of women who seek protective orders; (d) to explore research on whether protective orders actually increase women's safety; and (e) to highlight opportunities and gaps in the practice and research literature regarding the use of protective orders for women with violent partners or ex-partners.

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“…In the United States of America, all fifty states and the District Columbia have some mechanism to protect the victims of domestic violence (DeJong & Burgess-Proctor, 2006 According to Hodges (1999Hodges ( -2000, courts tend to overuse mutual orders in same-sex cases, rather than taking the time to investigate who the actual victim is.…”

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The Impact of an Interim Protection Order (Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998) on the Victims of Domestic Violence

Vogt

Greeff

2010

Families in Society

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The primary objectives of this study were to determine the impact of the interim protection order (IPO) on the nature and extent of domestic violence, the general well-being of the victims of domestic violence, and the efficiency of the application procedure for the IPO. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design was used on an experimental (n = 884) and a control (n = 125) group. The results indicated that the IPO had a significant impact on certain aspects of physical, psychological, and social well-being and in some areas of domestic violence. The IPO did not have a significant impact on the participants' experiences of their personal, communal, environmental, and transcendental well-being. Application procedures were found to be satisfactory in most areas.

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A Summary of Personal Protection Order Statutes in the United States

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Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

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