TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Using a restraining order as a protective risk management strategy to prevent intimate partner violence JO - Police practice and research A1 - Strand, Susanne SP - 254 EP - 266 VL - 13 IS - 3 N2 - The police play an important role in implementing risk management strategies to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV). The focus of this study was to investigate the use of a restraining order (RO) as a risk management strategy and its crime preventive effect. Two hundred and fourteen male spousal assaulters assessed with the B-SAFER in a Swedish police county between 2005 and 2007 were followed up in 2009. Thirty-one per cent received a RO of which 44% relapsed into new IPV. There were no differences in recidivism between those who received a RO and those who did not. However, those assessed as low or medium risk for IPV were less likely to recidivate if they had a RO issued upon them than those assessed as high risk. These results indicate that the RO may be a useful crime preventive strategy for IPV in those specific cases, but not in general, and not for those assessed to present a high risk of future violence.

LA - SN - 1561-4263 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2011.607649 ID - ref1 ER -