RT Article
T1 The Tendency to Make Arrests in Domestic Violence: Perceptions From Police Officers in China
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 16
SP 4923
OP 4941
A1 Zhao, Ruohui
A1 Jiang, Yong
A1 Yao, Xuening
A1 Zhang, Hongwei
A2 Jiang, Yong
A2 Yao, Xuening
A2 Zhang, Hongwei
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1666529303
AB The present study examines police officer attitudes and responses to domestic violence on a sample of 520 officers in a southern Chinese city. The police officers were asked to respond to two vignette scenarios depicting husbands assaulting their wives. The results show high correlations between officer responses to the two vignettes: Husbands are much more likely to be arrested than wives. The results of logistic regression analysis reveal that officers who view their profession as that of a law enforcer are more likely to arrest either husbands or wives. Officers who believe domestic violence to be a private matter are less inclined to arrest husbands, while those who hold profeminist attitudes are more inclined to do so. Finally, the implications are considered for further understanding of police responses to domestic violence in the Chinese context.
K1 Responses to domestic violence
K1 Police arrest
K1 Attitude toward women
K1 Police subculture
K1 China
DO 10.1177/0306624X18801653