RT Research Data
T1 Police Arrest Decisions in Intimate Partner Violence Cases in the United States, 2000 and 2003
A1 Rhodes, Karin V.
A2 Dichter, Melissa E.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840050497
AB The purpose of the study was to better understand the factors associated with police decisions to make an arrest or not in cases of heterosexual partner violence and how these decisions vary across jurisdictions. The study utilized data from three large national datasets: the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for the year 2003, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) for the years 2000 and 2003, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services Area Resource File (ARF) for the year 2003. Researchers also developed a database of domestic violence state arrest laws including arrest type (mandatory, discretionary, or preferred) and primary aggressor statutes. Next, the research team merged these four databases into one, with incident being the unit of analysis. As a further step, the research team conducted spatial analysis to examine the impact of spatial autocorrelation in arrest decisions by police organizations on the results of statistical analyses. The dependent variable for this study was arrest outcome, defined as no arrest, single male arrest, single female arrest, and dual arrest for an act of violence against an intimate partner. The primary independent variables were divided into three categories: incident factors, police organizational factors, and community factors.
K1 Aggravated assault
K1 Arrests
K1 Assault
K1 Communities
K1 crime patterns
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
K1 intimate partners
K1 intimidation
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 law enforcement agencies
K1 Police
K1 police departments
K1 Sexual Assault
K1 spatial data
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR31333.v1