Description
Book SynopsisA study of the effects of mandatory arrest and no-drop prosecution on offenders. It argues that the promise for defeating intimate partner abuse lies in better matching the tactics of state power to the goals of victim empowerment and offender responsibility and to exercise such force through mechanisms that do not exacerbate social inequality.
Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious book that has important implications for our theoretical understanding of the effects of criminal justice interventions on people arrested for domestic violence and for our evaluations of the practical utility of presumptive arrest and prosecution for violence.
-- Kristin L. Anderson, Western Washington University
I have been working in this general area for more than 30 years and have recently published a book focusing on the criminal justice response to abuse. But, I learned a considerable amount from this book and found myself underlining whole passages to think more about. So it is stimulating, not merely informative.
-- Evan Stark, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Practice of Mandatory Arrest
2: The Practice of No-Drop Prosecution
3: Research Participants and Their Violence
4: Abusers' Experiences with Mandatory Arrest and No-Drop Prosecution
5: Abusers' Relation to Violence
6: Change in the Lives of Abusers
Conclusion
Appendix A: Description of Research Methods
Appendix B: Classification of Research Participants
Notes
Works Cited
Index
