Carolyn Hoyle examines factors that shape the criminal justice response to domestic violence in the light of 1990s policy changes.
This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victims and the amount of resources required to respond to it.
This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse.
"Domestic conflict is the largest single cause of violence in America, yet police have traditionally been reluctant to make arrests for such assaults. In the past decade, however, that reluctance...
This text will help strengthen the communication between police and crime victims, and can help the reader become a better police officer.
Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do about it? Susan Edwards...
Fineman, M and Myktuik, R (eds) (1994) The Public Nature of Private Violence, London: Routledge. ... of Huddersfield Hague, G. (2001) 'Multi-agency initiatives', in Taylor-Browne, J (ed), What Works in Reducing Domestic Violence?
Ironically, when Crane was first arrested, the Ventura prosecutors petitioned the court to allow police to keep the gun they'd confiscated from Crane during his first arrest. Even though these prosecutors didn't prosecute the case, ...
Lloyd and Walmsley's Home Office study (1989), which was restricted to convicted rapists, and related to a time period prior to the creation of the CPS, seemed to indicate an increased willingness on the part of the courts to convict in ...
... Violence: An Overview of the Literature (HMSO, London, 1989) for a summary of the evidence. 27 Edwards, Policing ... Domestic Violence, n2 above; Grace, Policing Domestic Violence in the 1990s, n 2 above. This is not to suggest that all ...