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Impact of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1976-1997

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Principal Investigator(s): Dugan, Laura

Summary: This study examined the impacts of jurisdictions’ domestic violence policies on violent behavior of family members and intimate partners, on the likelihood that the police discovered an incident, and on the likelihood that the police made an arrest. The research combined two datasets. Part 1 contains information on police, prosecution policies, and local victim services. Informants within the local agencies of the 50 largest cities in the United States were contacted and asked to complete a surv... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25621.v1

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