RT Article
T1 Chinese police officers’ attitudes toward domestic violence interventions: do training and knowledge of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law matter?
JF Policing and society
VO 31
IS 7
SP 878
OP 894
A1 Lin, Kai
A2 Sun, Ivan Y.
A2 Wu, Yuning
A2 Xue, Jia
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1768385351
AB In March 2016, China’s Anti-Domestic Violence Law became effective. The main objective of this study is to empirically test the effects of training and knowledge on the recent anti-domestic violence legislation on Chinese police officers’ attitudes toward law enforcement interventions into domestic violence. Performing Path Analysis on survey data collected from 623 police officers in Jiangsu, China, this study found that training and knowledge on the law, while mediating the positive effects of organisational support and previous experience of handling domestic violence on officers’ proactive attitudes toward policing domestic violence, did not have a direct connection to pro-arrest attitudes. Organisational support is the strongest predictor of endorsement of domestic violence interventions as important police work and pro-arrest attitudes. Implications for criminal justice policies and practice are also discussed.
K1 Anti-Domestic Violence Law
K1 China
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 Policing
DO 10.1080/10439463.2020.1797027