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Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases with Reluctant Victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994-1995

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Principal Investigator(s): Davis, Robert C.; Smith, Barbara E.; Nickles, Laura

Summary: Officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, introduced two experiments designed to provide answers to questions of how to deal with victim reluctance in domestic violence cases. Two projects funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) evaluated these Milwaukee domestic violence experiments. The first project examined the effectiveness of a specialized domestic violence court that opened in September 1994. The primary intent of the specialized domestic violence court was to speed up the dispo... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04409.v1

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