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Mandatory, Preferred, or Discretionary: How the Classification of Domestic Violence Warrantless Arrest Laws Impacts Their Estimated Effects on Intimate Partner Homicide
- Author(s):
- Hannah Brenner, Alexis Norris, April M. Zeoli
- Date:
- 2011
- Group(s):
- MSU Law Faculty Repository
- Subject(s):
- Criminal law, Domestic relations, Law
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- domestic violence, warrantless arrest laws, homicide, classification systems, Evaluation Rev., FacPubs, Family law, Law and gender, Other law
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/gy3e-9z83
- Abstract:
- Warrantless arrest laws for domestic violence (DV) are generally classified as discretionary, preferred, or mandatory, based on the level of power accorded to police in deciding whether to arrest. However, there is a lack of consensus in the literature regarding how each state’s law should be categorized. Using three classification schemes, this study examined whether variations among these schemes impact research outcomes by analyzing the effects of discretionary, preferred, and mandatory warrantless arrest laws on intimate partner homicide (IPH). Variations in classification schemes and in the dates of law passage presented in the literature resulted in differing estimated effects of the laws.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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