Published findings from the spouse assault replication program: A critical review

Garner, Joel H.; Fagan, Jeffrey; Maxwell, Christopher D.

doi:10.1007/bf02221298

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“…Much of this body of research has focused on the police response, particularly the impact of arrest on future violence (Berk, Campbell, Klap, & Western, 1992;Dunford, Huizinga, & Elliot, 1990;Garner, Fagan, & Maxwell 1995; Hirshel & Hutchison, 2003;Sherman & Berk, 1984). Research on the impact of arrest on future violence has often been criticized, however, for taking arrest out of the context of the larger criminal legal system (e.g., Grant Bowman, 1992;Lerman, 1992).…”

Section: A R T I C L Ementioning

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Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system

Fleury‐Steiner

Bybee

Sullivan

et al. 2006

J. Community Psychol.

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While a small number of past studies have examined either situational, relational, or systems-level factors that influence battered women's use of either the police, prosecutorial, or court systems, no study to date has examined how these factors each influence women's intentions to reuse these systems. To address this gap, in-person interviews were conducted with 178 women whose assailants had been charged with a domestic violence-related crime against them. Survivors of intimate partner violence were asked about the violence itself, their relationship with the perpetrator (including financial dependence on him), community supports, their expectations, and desires regarding the criminal legal response, and their prior experiences with the police, prosecutors, legal advocates, and the courts. Regression analyses were conducted to examine women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system in the event of future violence. Consistent with an ecological perspective on behavior (e.g., Bronfenbrenner, 1979), the context of women's lives, the violence they had experienced, and their experiences with the police and the legal system all impacted their intentions. Specifically, women were more likely A R T I C L EThis project was supported by grant #98-WT-VX-0024 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Correspondence to: Ruth E. Fleury-Steiner, Department of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, 116 Alison Hall West, Newark, DE 19716. E-mail: rfs@udel.edu to want further involvement with these systems if they were employed, felt supported by their communities, had received information about services from the police, had experienced case outcomes consistent with their desires, and had been treated well by the criminal legal system. Women were less inclined to intend to use the system in the future if they were legally or financially tied to their perpetrators, if they had been assaulted again before the court case was closed, if court proceedings had been cancelled at least once, and if they had been pressured rather than supported by the criminal legal system. Implications of the findings are discussed. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Each year, approximately 1.3 million women are battered by their intimate partners or ex-partners; nearly one in four women are abused by a partner during their lifetime (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). Research shows that police and court intervention, as part of a coordinated community response, can reduce reabuse in many cases (e.g., Murphy, Musser, & Maton, 1998;Steinman, 1990;Syers & Edleson, 1992). Yet, intimate partner abuse crimes are also underreported. In some of the earlier research on reporting, Walker (1979) reported that only 10% of her sample had called the police. Recent research suggests that currently less than half-perhaps far less than half-of domestic ...

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Section: A R T I C L Ementioning

confidence: 98%

Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system

Fleury‐Steiner

Bybee

Sullivan

et al. 2006

J. Community Psychol.

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“…The problem this raises is that such heightened surveillance in not possible under ordinary probation circumstances. Garner, Fagan and Maxwell (1995) and Garner and Maxwell (2000) pooled data across all six replication sites to standardize the methodologies and measures. Using victim interviews (the more sensitive measure) as outcome measures, this re-analysis found that independent of site, length of time between initial and follow-up interviews, and suspect characteristics, offenders in the arrested group were significantly less likely to repeat their "aggression" (subsequent assaults, verbal threats of assault, and property damage) than those in the non-arrest group.…”

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Transforming a flawed policy: A call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research and practice

Dutton¹,

Corvo²

2006

Aggression and Violent Behavior

240

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be social problem in the United States. Unfortunately, legislation aimed at solving the problem has been based on models of IPV that are not empirically supported. One example is "psychoeducational" intervention models legislated by the courts in many states. These models eschew psychological treatment even of empirically established factors supporting habits of intimate abusiveness. They have, in effect, removed a psychology of abusiveness from intervention and replaced it with a gender political model. In contrast to this model, research from several longitudinal peer cohort studies shows that a propensity for IPV is predictable in both genders during adolescence. Yet treatment or prevention of psychological risk factors is either neglected or negatively legislated. This paper reviews the prevailing criminal justice intervention model, provides examples of how the paradigm supporting this model distorts interpretation of research and compares this flawed research with methodologically superior studies suggesting a different and potentially more effective approach.

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“…Sherman's (1992) post hoc explanation ("stakes in conformity") draws attention to the variable effects of arrest on different types of people in different types of neighborhoods. Others focused on the methodological strengths and weaknesses both within and across study sites and specific sets of analyses (Fagan and Browne, 1994;Garner et aL, 1995). Nevertheless, given the dramatic change informal policy following the Minneapolis proarrest findings (see Garner et al, 1995, p. 4), these replications in different sites proved to be critical.…”

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Contributions of quantitative methods to the study of gender and crime, or bootstrapping our way into the theoretical thicket

Kruttschnitt

1996

J Quant Criminol

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Researchers concur on the importance of gender to the study of crime but not on the particular methodological strategy that should be used when studying the gender-crime relationship. This paper examines the actual and potential contributions of quantitative methods for unpacking the gender-crime relationship. Three bodies of literature pertaining to the gender-crime relationship are examined: (i) offending, (ii) victimization, and (iii) criminal justice processing. The findings from this review indicate that while much knowledge about the gender-crime relationship has been uncovered with quantitative data, a commensurate amount of theoretical knowledge does not exist. The author concludes with substantive and methodological suggestions for furthering our understanding of the gendercrime relationship.

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Published findings from the spouse assault replication program: A critical review

Cited by 126 publications

References 24 publications

Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system

Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system

Transforming a flawed policy: A call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research and practice

Contributions of quantitative methods to the study of gender and crime, or bootstrapping our way into the theoretical thicket

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