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Citation

Williams KR. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2005; 10(6): 660-679.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology and Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA (Kirk.Williams@UCR.edu)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.avb.2005.02.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Two decades of research have failed to produce consistent and compelling results that arrest deters intimate partner violence. This tradition of research is reviewed, concluding that little can be learned about the deterrent efficacy of arrest (or other sanctions) for this type of violence until a more complete framework of deterrence theory is specified to guide further research. The framework should delineate mediating influences besides deterrence, linking arrest to the prevention, reduction, or cessation of intimate partner violence, and factors that moderate those influences. Such factors bear on the differential sensitivity to sanctions on the part of actual or potential perpetrators of intimate partner violence. Recommendations for future research are offered, including suggestions for data needed to draw defensible causal inferences about these mediating and moderating influences.

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