Coordinated Criminal Justice Interventions and Recidivism Among Batterers (From Woman Battering: Policy Responses, P 221-236, 1991, Michael Steinman, ed. -- See NCJ-129473)

• NCJ Number: 129484
• Author(s): M Steinman
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 16 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ); US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
• Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Information from Lancaster County, Neb. formed the basis of an analysis of whether coordination between the police and other criminal justice agencies is associated with recidivism among perpetrators of domestic assault.

Abstract

The research location was the county around Lincoln with a 96-percent white and mostly middle-class population of more than 200,000. The analysis considered three kinds of police intervention: arrest, citation, and responding to a call for service but taking no formal action. Victim interviews and record reviews during an experimental period marked by the enforcement of arrest policies coordinated with aggressive prosecution and a 1985-86 baseline period before arrest policies and aggressive prosecution went into effect. Findings showed that enforcement of arrest policies in coordination with interventions is related to significantly less recidivism. Tables and 6 references