Policy, Place, and Perpetrators: Using NIBRS to Explain Arrest Practices in Intimate Partner Violence

Pattavina, April; Buzawa, Eve S.; Hirschel, David; Faggiani, Donald

doi:10.3818/jrp.9.2.2007.31

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“…The dependent variable for the analysis is the monthly count of incidents of family violence reported to the police, compiled in the National Incident-Based Reporting Program (NIBRS) for Massachusetts cities and towns. NIBRS data have been used in a number of studies that examine the context and consequences of intimate partner violence (Hirschel, Buzawa, Pattavina, & Faggiani, 2007; Pattavina, Buzawa, Hirschel, & Faggiani, 2007).…”

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Economic Stress and Domestic Violence

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Zuber

2015

Justice Research and Policy

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The empirical research on the relationship between mortgage foreclosures and crime continues to evolve, and, with few exceptions, the results generally show that there is a relationship between community measures of mortgage foreclosure and crime levels. Lacking in this literature are studies that considered how foreclosures may impact domestic violence. For many families, home mortgages have significant meaning as an indicator of financial stability and represent a long-term commitment to a community through home ownership and the accompanying social and financial investments. Families who are threatened with the loss of their home to foreclosure experience a decrease in their financial status, and the stress triggered by the crisis may place them at greater risk for family violence. In this study, we examine the relationship between mortgage foreclosures and family violence. Using longitudinal panel data for Massachusetts cities and towns, our study focuses specifically on the years 2005–2009, the period that includes the Great Recession. We find that after controlling for other community indicators of economic health, higher levels of monthly mortgage foreclosures lead to higher levels of domestic violence.

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Economic Stress and Domestic Violence

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Zuber

2015

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“…child to parent) violence to other acquaintance violence. Their results also showed that intimate partner violence was more likely to lead to arrest in rural than in urban jurisdictions, debunking the common view that domestic violence arrests are not a priority in rural areas (Pattavina, Buzawa et al. 2007).…”

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“…2004), the interaction between the racial composition of a city's police force and the offender's race in assault clearance (Eitle et al. 2005), and the effects of state law and agency‐level policies on individual officers’ arrest behavior in domestic violence incidents (Eitle 2005; Pattavina, Buzawa et al. 2007; Pattavina, Hirschel et al.…”

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Contributions of the National Incident‐Based Reporting System to Substantive Knowledge in Criminology: A Review of Research

Roberts¹

2009

Sociology Compass

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The National Incident‐Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data have been available to the research community for about a decade. The advantages of NIBRS over other official statistics such as summary Uniform Crime Reports, Supplementary Homicide Reports, and the National Crime Victimization Survey have contributed to better evaluation of a number of theoretical perspectives in criminology and criminal justice, and have helped in suggesting possible policy implications. This paper reviews studies using the NIBRS data in the areas of crime clearance, crime rates disaggregated by situational context (including domestic violence, race‐specific crime, and gun crime), and lethal and non‐lethal outcomes of violent encounters. The paper also discusses limitations of the NIBRS data and cautions for its use, along with future research possibilities.

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“…A host of researchers have made use of NIBRS arrest data to study aspects of intimate partner violence. Multiple studies have investigated the police decision to make an arrest in intimate partner violence cases (Dichter, Marcus, Morabito, & Rhodes, 2011; Durfee & Fetzer, 2016; Hirschel & Buzawa, 2013; Pattavina, Buzawa, Hirschel, & Faggiani, 2007). Likewise, research has studied the correlates of arrests for domestic violence offenses (Durfee, 2012; Eitle, Stolzenberg, & D’Alessio, 2005; Hirschel, Hutchison, & Shaw, 2010; Hirschel & Hutchison, 2011; Strom, Warner, Tichavsky, & Zahn, 2014; Vazquez, Stohr, & Purkiss, 2005).…”

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Assessing the Representativeness of NIBRS Arrest Data

Pattavina

Carkin

Tracy

2017

Crime & Delinquency

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This article examines the coverage of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) arrest data as of 2016. We use NIBRS and Uniform Crime Report (UCR), Summary Reporting System on persons arrested. We examine the correspondence of arrests measures between the UCR and NIBRS for overall arrests, and arrests by sex, race, and age. We found that NIBRS arrest data are a close match to UCR data overall and the differences across demographic measures are very slight.

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Policy, Place, and Perpetrators: Using NIBRS to Explain Arrest Practices in Intimate Partner Violence

Cited by 26 publications

References 32 publications

Economic Stress and Domestic Violence

Economic Stress and Domestic Violence

Contributions of the National Incident‐Based Reporting System to Substantive Knowledge in Criminology: A Review of Research

Assessing the Representativeness of NIBRS Arrest Data

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