TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Police decision making in wife abuse: The impact of legal and extralegal factors
JO  - Law and human behavior
A1  - Waaland, Pam
A1  - Keeley, Stuart
SP  - 355
EP  - 366
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - Investigated the impact of legal and extralegal information on 26 male and 10 female patrol officers' (aged 23-36 yrs) decision-making policies for wife abuse, using regression analysis. Individual differences in Ss' propensity to arrest abusive husbands were also examined. Ss made responsibility and prescriptive judgments based on simulated police reports describing 7 sources of information ("cues"). Regression analyses indicated that victims' extralegal behavior generally was the primary determinant of responsibility assigned to both victims and assailants. However, legal prescriptions were based primarily on legally relevant information. Implications of the obtained judgment policies as well as use of the regression methodology in legal decision-making research are discussed. (26 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 0147-7307
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01044476
ID  - ref1
ER  -