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Effect of Procedural Justice in Spouse Assault in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1987-1989

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Principal Investigator(s): Paternoster, Raymond; Bachman, Ronet; Brame, Robert; Sherman, Lawrence W.

Summary: The purpose of the research project was to examine the extent to which the perception of procedural fairness by suspects arrested for spouse assault effectively inhibited their subsequent violence. The data for this study were collected for the MILWAUKEE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXPERIMENT, 1987-1989 (ICPSR 9966), which was conducted from April 1987 to August 1988. In this experiment, all cases of misdemeanor domestic battery where probable cause to arrest existed were randomly assigned to one o... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20343.v1

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