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Citation

Hare SC. Violence Vict. 2006; 21(5): 611-628.

Affiliation

Indiana University Southeast, New Albany 47150, USA. schare@ius.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17022353

Abstract

Prosecutors have increasingly adopted mandatory prosecution in domestic violence criminal cases. There is little empirical evidence, however, that the policy is a good match for victims' needs. Interviews with 94 battered women, whose cases were randomly selected from prosecutors' files, focused on their opinions of prosecuting. A logistic regression explores the factors that predict whether victims favor or oppose prosecution. Open-ended responses are coded into themes using the goals of sentencing literature as a framework. Previous published works are also tentatively grouped into the same themes to look for trends in the field. The most frequent reason why victims oppose prosecution is that the crime is too minor to justify a penalty.


Language: en

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