The Effects of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence: New Evidence From the Spouse Assault Replication Program

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

doi:10.1037/e596542007-001

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“…Trends in domestic violence rates over the past 10 years have documented a decrease and it appears new social norms regarding domestic violence may have emerged (see Klein et al, 1997), which suggest a relation between domestic violence policies and underlying social norms. Alternatively, there has been much research examining the effectiveness of arrest policies (Berk & Newton, 1985;Buzawa & Austin, 1993;Feder, Jolin, & Feyerherm, 2000;Maxwell, Garner, & Fagan, 2001;Schmidt & Sherman, 1993;Sherman & Berk, 1984;Tolman & Weisz, 1995) and some research examining the effects of varying prosecutorial policies (Davis, Smith, & Nickels, 1998;Fagan, Friedman, Wexler, & Lewis, 1984;Feder et al, 2000;Ford & Regoli, 1993); however, this research has revealed mixed results (Maxwell, Garner, & Fagan, 2001). For example, some studies have shown arrest to be an effective deterrent against future offending (Berk & Newton, 1985;Sherman & Berk, 1984), whereas other studies indicate arrest is effective only for a certain profile based on offender characteristics (e.g., employed, White, and Hispanic; Schmidt & Sherman, 1993).…”

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Moving Beyond the Individual: Examining the Effects of Domestic Violence Policies on Social Norms

Salazar

Baker

Price

et al. 2003

American J of Comm Psychol

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To be effective, criminal justice policies should affect the underlying social norms for which the policies were enacted. This study sought to determine whether public perceptionsof criminal justice policies on domestic violence affected social norms. Two waves of data were collected via a telephone survey where a random probability sample of 973 residents was drawn from 4 communities. A structural equation model was tested and confirmed. Results provided strong support for the hypothesis that perceptions of criminal justice policies have direct effects on attitudes toward criminal justice response, and indirect effects on victim‐blaming attitudes, both underlying social norms related to domestic violence. The enactment of criminal justice policies, therefore, may have an impact beyond victims and perpetrators and lead to a transformation of the community through the emergence of new social norms. Public awareness campaigns designed to disseminate criminal justice policies may be instrumental in provoking social change.

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Moving Beyond the Individual: Examining the Effects of Domestic Violence Policies on Social Norms

Salazar

Baker

Price

et al. 2003

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…The need for more experiments in more countries on policing domestic abuse grows greater as the evidence from the US trials gets more worrisome. While the initial US results were encouraging (Sherman and Berk 1984), or at least equivocal (Maxwell et al 2001), longer-term evidence now suggests that for at least one population (urban AfricanAmerican women victims), the policy of mandatory arrest may cause a 100% increase in premature death from all causes among victims whose abusers are arrested (Sherman and Harris 2015).…”

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Reducing the Harm of Intimate Partner Violence: Randomized Controlled Trial of the Hampshire Constabulary CARA Experiment

Strang

Sherman

Ariel

et al. 2017

Camb J Evid Based Polic

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Research Question Among Southampton-area males arrested for and admitting to lowrisk intimate partner violence as a first domestic offence and receiving a conditional caution, did a randomly assigned requirement to attend (with four to seven other male offenders), two weekend day-long Cautioning and Relationship Abuse (CARA) workshops led by experienced professionals reduce the total severity of crime harm relative to a no-workshop control group? Data Eligible offenders (N = 293) were randomly assigned to the CARA workshop attendance requirement (n = 154) or to the no-workshop requirement (n = 139), with 91% of all cases receiving treatment as randomly assigned. Each offender's records of police contact were tracked for exactly 365 days after the date of random assignment. Methods All repeat arrests or complaints of crime naming the 293 randomly assigned offenders were coded by the Cambridge Crime Harm Index (CHI) as the primary outcome measure for each offender (Sherman et al. in Policing, 10(3), 171-183, 2016), with the sum of total days of recommended imprisonment for each offence (as the guideline starting point for sentencing) summed across all new offences, with both Camb J Evid Based Polic (2017) College of Policing, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, UK domestic and non-domestic relationships to their victims. Prevalence and frequency of repeat contact were also computed. All analysis was done by intention-to-treat. Findings Offenders assigned to the workshop group were re-arrested for crimes with a total CHI value that was 27% lower than for re-arrests of offenders assigned to the control group (P = .011). The CARA workshop group members were arrested for crimes totalling an average of 8.4 days of recommended imprisonment under English sentencing guidelines, compared to an average of 11.6 days per offender assigned to the control group, the equivalent of 38% more harm without the workshop than with it. The effect size was much stronger, however, in the first study period of high caseflow (72% reduction in CHI, P = .001) than in the second period (21% reduction in CHI, P = .178). Frequency of re-arrest for domestic abuse (21% lower for workshopassigned group) and prevalence (35% lower for workshop-assigned group) also favoured the CARA workshop group.Conclusions The results of this 1-year follow-up analysis suggest that the CARA workshops are an effective way to reduce the future harm of domestic abuse among first offenders who admit their crime, although effect size may vary over time. Given the highly restrictive eligibility criteria for the programme, these findings provide an evidence-based reason for testing the same treatment among a larger proportion of all first-offender arrests for domestic abuse.

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“…The replications varied in procedures, comparison interventions, follow-up times, and outcome, leading some to comment that firm conclusions about the effects of arrest cannot be drawn (e.g., Garner, 1997;Garner, Fagan, & Maxwell, 1995). Combining data from all five replication attempts, Maxwell, Garner, and Fagan (2001) concluded that arrest slightly reduced recidivism (i.e., violence against the partner or property, verbal threats of violence), but survival curves for arrested versus nonarrested suspects were nearly identical during 1,000 days of follow-up. After a flurry of empirical interest in the 1980s, the effects of arrest on wife assault recidivism remain unknown.…”

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The Effect of Arrest On Wife Assault Recidivism

Hilton

Harris

Rice

2007

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Prior research on the effect of arrest on wife assault recidivism had equivocal results and mixed reception. Arrest is not always used in wife assault cases, and several studies suggest that arrest is influenced by incident severity rather than risk of recidivism. The present study examined the effect of arrest controlling for pre-arrest actuarial risk of recidivism, which was measured retrospectively and independently of arrest decision using the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment. In an archival study of 522 wife assault incidents with police attending, arrest was associated with pre-arrest risk for recidivism and with victim injury, incident severity, and other sample characteristics. In multivariate regression and survival analyses, arrest had no overall effect on recidivism but a small beneficial effect in lower risk cases, mostly in terms of a delayed time until recidivism. Arrest of higher risk cases could be increased by police use of a validated tool for risk assessment.

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The Effects of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence: New Evidence From the Spouse Assault Replication Program

Abstract: Issues and Findings Discussed in this Brief: An analysis of 4,032 incidents in which males assaulted their female intimate partners, comparing the number of repeat offenses when batterers are and are not arrested.

Cited by 112 publications

References 6 publications

Moving Beyond the Individual: Examining the Effects of Domestic Violence Policies on Social Norms

Moving Beyond the Individual: Examining the Effects of Domestic Violence Policies on Social Norms

Reducing the Harm of Intimate Partner Violence: Randomized Controlled Trial of the Hampshire Constabulary CARA Experiment

The Effect of Arrest On Wife Assault Recidivism

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