Do Arrests and Restraining Orders Work [Paperback]

In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research methods and analyses are presented and a number of issues raised. These include: whether the criminal justice response to domestic violence is inadequate; whether there is a conflict of interest between society and the victim of violence; and whether alternative means should be used to deter chronic batterers who are undeterred by the criminal justice response.In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research methods and analyses are presented and a number of issues raised. These include: whether the criminal justice response to domestic violence is inadequate; whether there is a conflict of interest between society and the victim of violence; and whether alternative means should be used to deter chronic batterers who are undeterred by the criminal justice response.Introduction - Eve S Buzawa and Carl G Buzawa
Identifying Offenders in Criminal Justice Research on Domestic Assualt - Murray A Straus
Constraints against Family Violence - Richard J Gelles
How Well Do They Work?
Does Arrest Deter Domestic Violence? - Janell D Schmidt and Lawrence W Sherman
Realities and Implications of the Charlotte Spouse Abuse Experiment - J David Hirschel and Ira W Hutchison
The Preventive Conceit - Peter K Manning
The Black Box in Market Context
Battered Women and the Criminal Justice System - Barbara Hart
Mandatory Arrest of Batterers - Evan Stark
A Reply to Its Critics
The Role of Arrest in Domestic versus Stranger Assault - Eve S Buzawa, Thomas L Austin and Carl G Buzawa
Is There a Difference?
Prosecution Response to Domestic Violence - Donald J Rebovich
Results of a Survey of Ll³-