Fifty Years After the 1967 Crime Commission Report

Abstract

In the 50 years since the U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice under President Johnson issued its report, feminist activism and both feminist and mainstream research have resulted in defining domestic violence (DV) as a social problem. This awareness of the seriousness and expansiveness of DV has spurred the development of unprecedented programs and policies. Although DV policing changes have been significant, so too have been the development of and changes in safehouses, no-drop court policies, domestic violence courts, community-coordinated responses, and batterer intervention programs. In this article, we review the nonpolice responses to DV cases and outcomes and provide recommendations. First, research and policies need to more regularly be aimed at addressing victims' safety and their diverse needs and experiences. Second, assessments should include addressing the processing of these cases through the impact of responses by individual community and criminal legal system actors (e.g., victim advocates, police, prosecutors, and judges) to victims and offenders.

Domestic violence: a Rodger’s evolutionist conceptual analysis

“…From analysis of the corpus formed by the 122 definitions extracted, 22 attributes were identified for the term domestic violence, ten antecedents and eight consequents. The list of terms is shown in Chart 1. stands out that it is considered a form of justice and normalized by society, despite being classified as a complex phenomenon that must be dealt with at the police and judicial levels (34)(35)(36) .…”

What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence: Understanding Knowledge Production

“…A review paper by Edwards et al (2017) shows, for instance, that violence prevention programs primarily focus on education and curriculum targeting young adults, bystander prevention programs, and social and public awareness aimed at behavior change, not social change. Meanwhile, research on victims/survivors of violence focuses on financial independence, therapy, empowerment, and help-seeking from social networks, the courts, and the criminal justice system (Belknap & Grant, 2018; Fellin et al, 2019).…”

Domestic Violence Policy: A World of Change

“…The sweeping changes in DV awareness and policies that started with the second wave of the feminist movement, mostly in the late 1960s and 1970s, included police DV pro-arrest and, to a lesser degree, court no-drop DV, policies beginning in the 1980s (Belknap & Grant, 2018, 2020Larence et al, 2019;Pandhe, 1988). In the early 1990s, after centuries of the police and courts failing to take DV seriously, the CLS was flooded with DV arrests, and thus, court cases (Belknap & Grant, 2018).…”