Published Articles, Posts, & Reports On Police and Domestic Violence
Please find below published articles, posts and reports on police and domestic violence. Some of these article show how common it is for police to drop domestic violence cases.
Violence against women - 'Portrayal of women as intimate partner domestic violence perpetrators', 2012.
“Women were 3 times more likely than men to be arrested when they were identified as a primary aggressor in a particular incident, and the police appeared more ready to arrest women despite patterns of violent behaviour that were less intense or severe than the patterns exhibited by men…” (p.1075)
'Women's violence to men in intimate relationships: working on a puzzle' - British Journal of Criminology, 2004
“When women’s violence against a male partner does occur, it is usually, although not always, in the context of men’s violence to the woman” (p.345)