The goal of this research is to better understand how a jurisdictions’ domestic violence policy profile influences the violent behavior of family members and intimate partners living in the area. Furthermore, in recognition that effective policy can reduce violence by leading more cases into the system, and/or by directing the police to seriously pursue the case, this research also had two secondary objectives: 1) to test the relationship between policy and the likelihood that the police discover an incident, and 2) to examine how policy relates to the likelihood that the police make an arrest.
This research addresses all three objectives by combining data on domestic violence laws, police and prosecution policies, and local victim services with that from the geographically identified National Crime Victimization Survey for the years 1992 to 1998. Several logistic models are run to identify the marginal effect of each policy on three outcomes: the probability that the police are informed of a domestic violence incident, the probability that the police make and arrest, and, finally, the probability that a household suffers from at least one form of domestic violence. Results reveal that many policies are related to reduced chances of family or intimate violence, while only a few relate to the police discovering an incident and/or making an arrest.
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http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/196854.pdf
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