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Police Arrest Decisions in Intimate Partner Violence Cases in the United States, 2000 and 2003

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Principal Investigator(s): Rhodes, Karin V.; Dichter, Melissa E.

Summary: The purpose of the study was to better understand the factors associated with police decisions to make an arrest or not in cases of heterosexual partner violence and how these decisions vary across jurisdictions. The study utilized data from three large national datasets: the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for the year 2003, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) for the years 2000 and 2003, and the United States Department of Health and Human Serv... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31333.v1

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