Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governing Domestic Violence: Investigating the Effects of Arrest and Prosecution Practice on the Intimate Violence of Masculine Subjects

博士论文研究：治理家庭暴力：调查逮捕和起诉实践对男性受试者亲密暴力的影响

• 批准号: 0351818
• 负责人: Anna-Maria Marshall
• 金额: $ 0.45万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0351818&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Governing; Domestic

This research will study the effects of mandatory arrest and no-drop prosecution policies on domestic batterers. The objective of this study is to understand how the practices comprising arrest and prosecution shape perpetrators' understanding and performance of abuse. Past research has approached this topic exclusively from a deterrence perspective, employing experimental and quasi-experimental designs to test whether arrest and/or prosecution predict less reports of future violence than other types of interventions. Drawing from completed fieldwork which has found that police officers and defense attorneys minimize and justify abuse in order to make domestic battery suspects easier to work with, this research explores four hypotheses: (1) batterers' understanding of abuse is not changed by arrest and prosecution; (2) the practices employed by police officers and defense attorneys reinforce perpetrators' understanding of abuse; (3) batterers perceive arrest and prosecution as challenges to their masculinity; and (4) men will turn to new coercive tactics following arrest and prosecution in order to reassert their masculinity. These hypotheses will be investigated through semi-structured interviews with 30 misdemeanor domestic battery suspects.

本研究将探讨强制逮捕和不放弃起诉政策对家庭施虐者的影响。本研究的目的是了解包括逮捕和起诉在内的做法如何塑造犯罪者对虐待的理解和表现。过去的研究完全从威慑的角度来探讨这一主题，采用实验和准实验设计来测试逮捕和/或起诉是否比其他类型的干预措施预测未来暴力的报告更少。根据已完成的实地调查，发现警察和辩护律师会最大限度地减少虐待行为并为虐待行为辩护，以便使家庭殴打嫌疑人更容易处理，本研究探讨了四个假设：（1）殴打者对虐待行为的理解不会因逮捕和起诉而改变;（2）警察和辩护律师采用的做法强化了肇事者对虐待行为的理解;（3）施虐者认为被捕和检控是对他们男子气概的挑战;及（4）男性在被捕和检控后会采用新的胁迫手段，以重申他们的男子气概。这些假设将通过半结构化的采访30轻罪家庭电池嫌疑人进行调查。