Effects of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence: New Evidence from the Spouse Assault Replication Program. Research in Brief.

摘要

The report is 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. The data in this study were obtained from five jurisdictions included in the National Institute of Justice-sponsored Spouse Assault Replication Program. This multisite analysis was cosponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Analysis of 314 incidents in the 1984 Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment found that when the assaulter was arrested, statistically significant reductions in subsequent offending were reported both in victim interviews and in official police records. Replication experiments began in the early 1990s. Five jurisdictions that used a diverse set of incidents and a variety of outcome measures reported that the use of arrest was only occasionally associated with statistically significant reductions in subsequent repeat offending. The results of the experiments varied by measures used and by the jurisdiction studied.