RT Article
T1 Fifty years after the 1967 crime commission report
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 17
IS 2
SP 467
OP 481
A1 Belknap, Joanne
A2 Grant, Deanne
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1584758899
AB In the 50 years since the U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice under President Johnson issued its report, feminist activism and both feminist and mainstream research have resulted in defining domestic violence (DV) as a social problem. This awareness of the seriousness and expansiveness of DV has spurred the development of unprecedented programs and policies. Although DV policing changes have been significant, so too have been the development of and changes in safehouses, no‐drop court policies, domestic violence courts, community‐coordinated responses, and batterer intervention programs. In this article, we review the nonpolice responses to DV cases and outcomes and provide recommendations. First, research and policies need to more regularly be aimed at addressing victims’ safety and their diverse needs and experiences. Second, assessments should include addressing the processing of these cases through the impact of responses by individual community and criminal legal system actors (e.g., victim advocates, police, prosecutors, and judges) to victims and offenders.
K1 Domestic violence
K1 Intimate partner abuse
K1 Courts
K1 Community-coordinated responses
K1 Safehouses
K1 Protection orders
K1 Batterer intervention programs
K1 Häusliche Gewalt
K1 Intimpartnergewalt
K1 U.S. President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
K1 1967
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12370