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Making it through the Criminal Justice System: Attrition and Domestic Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2006

Marianne Hester
Marianne Hester
Affiliation:
School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK E-mail: marianne.hester@bristol.ac.uk
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Abstract

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This article explores the process of attrition, where domestic violence cases fail to make it through the criminal justice system and do not result in criminal conviction. The article draws on the hitherto most detailed study of such attrition in the UK. The research, carried out across the Northumbria Police Force area, explored the quantitative attrition of domestic violence cases, from reporting to the police to final court outcome, contextualising this via the experiences of individuals (mainly women) victimised by domestic violence as well as the perspectives and practices of the police, prosecutors, the courts and non-criminal justice agencies.

Type
Themed Section on National and International responses to gendered violence against women
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 79 - 90
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2005