OBJECTIVE:
This study investigated the relationship between self-reported
childhood abuse and dissociative symptoms and amnesia. The presence or
absence of corroboration of recovered memories of childhood abuse was
also studied.
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January 23, 2012
Mandatory Arrest and Prosecution Policies for Domestic Violence: A Critical Literature Review and the Case for More Research to Test Victim Empowerment Approaches
The criminal justice system has only recently begun to consider violence between adult intimate partners a public matter worthy of legal concern. Advocates lobbied successfully to change the way perpetrators and victims are treated within the system.
Mandatory Arrest and No-Drop Policies: Victim Empowerment in Domestic Violence Cases
This Note analyzes whether and to what extent specific aggressive arrest
and prosecution policies are compatible with a victim-centered
empowerment approach to domestic violence advocacy. It concludes by
recommending various compromise approaches, which treat domestic
violence as the crime that it is while at the same time empowering
victims to become survivors.
Mandatory Arrest for Domestic Violence: A Universal Solution?
Battered women's advocates rest their support for mandatory arrest on
the deterrence of batterers and empowerment of women they believe the
policy can achieve. Subsequent criminological studies, however, suggest
that any beneficial effects produced by mandatory arrest may not be
universal across race and class.
JEC- Overview of Domestic Violence
In whatever context it occurs, domestic violence presents the court with
unique concerns, the foremost of which is the safety of the litigants
and court personnel. These heightened safety concerns arise from the
intimate relationship between the perpetrator and the victim of domestic
violence. This relationship increases the potential for danger in the
following ways:
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