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Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

Police Discretion's Mythological Aspects

is the responsibility of the criminal and juvenile justice systems to prosecute all violations of the law, and ... failure to do s...

The Domestic Violence Arrest Decision Reviewed

claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...

Discretion in Policing

must always play a part in police work, discretion is a more arbitrary practice (Bronitt and Stenning, 2011). For example, where a...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Women's Participation in Domestic Violence

This essay, first of all, considers the impact of recent media exposure in regards to domestic violence incidents and celebrities....

Canada Policing, Powers of Police, and Use of Discretion

force they can join an existing municipal force or contract with the RCMP or the provincial police in order to police the area (Mc...

Domestic Violence History

In five pages this paper examines domestic violence in a historical consideration that considers the infamous O.J. Simpson case wh...

Domestic Violence, Cause and Effect

This paper presents a cause-and-effect discussion that focuses on domestic violence, identifying the factors believed to be the do...

Domestic Violence Disclosure

This paper discusses domestic violence, the importance of screening for domestic violence and the problems associated with this is...

Domestic Violence and African Americans

to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

Law Enforcement and the Impact of Stress

They do not see society on its best behavior. They are not able to have the joys that some occupations have. "Its not amazing th...

Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement

bit ambiguously as "discipline administered in a reasonable manner" does not qualify as domestic violence (Domestic Violence and Y...

Police Effectiveness Issues

unjustified in their reluctance to arrest perpetrators in the past. It was not uncommon for charges to be dropped once the immedi...

Police Families and Domestic Violence

In twenty pages and five sections domestic violence is examined within the context of police families with a problem statement, re...

Domestic Violence, Policing, and Feminist Response in the UK

define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Women as Victims of Violent Acts

against women in curricular content; and working toward changing attitudes towards women that condone, or may encourage, acts of v...

Community Policing and Terrorism

firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...

Police Officers and Domestic Violence

In ten pages this research paper examines the incidences of domestic violence in the law enforcement profession and how the relati...

Process of Becoming An Auxiliary Police Officer

In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...

Function of Policing

This paper consists of eight pages and discusses policing function, trends, and issues including training and powers of discretion...

Community Law Enforcement and Discretion

In sixteen pages this paper examines the importance of discretion in community policing with issues including training, ethics, Fo...

'Birthright' and Domestic Violence

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the film Once Were Warriors is considered within the context of domestic violence as a birthright...

Australia and Domestic Abuse

In ten pages domestic abuse is examined within the context of Australia in a description of family violence causes and how women i...

Domestic Violence and Protection of Women and Children

The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). ...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

The Use of Discretion in Police Work

2004). Also, it is important to note that sometimes the public wants certain rules enforced and at other times, it does not ("Poli...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...