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Police Response To Children Present At Domestic Violence Incidents, Danielle Darlene Swerin
Police Response To Children Present At Domestic Violence Incidents, Danielle Darlene Swerin
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Police response to domestic violence incidents has continued to change and expand in the past several decades. Although domestic violence was originally considered a private matter not warranting police intervention, it now represents one of the most common calls for service received by police agencies. While police intervention in domestic violence incidents has improved substantially, response to children present remains an undeveloped area of research and practice. The present study examined 345 police reports from an agency in the Northwest in order to explore police response to domestic violence incidents and specifically their response to children. Similar to results from …
Police Response Time To Domestic Violence Calls And Its Effects, Brittney Thorndyke
Police Response Time To Domestic Violence Calls And Its Effects, Brittney Thorndyke
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
In 2011, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence stated that 1.3 million individuals are victims of domestic violence (DV) every year. This staggering statistic uncovers just how relevant the issue of domestic violence is in the United States. Research has been relatively silent concerning the examination of police officer response time to DV calls for assistance. Response time is important to all calls for service, but is extremely important in domestic violence calls where victims run the risk of physical injury.
This study found that response time did not have a significant effect on whether the offender was present on-scene …