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6 Hamline L. Rev. 247 (1983)
The Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project

handle is hein.journals/hamlrv6 and id is 255 raw text is: THE DULUTH DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT Ellen Pence* Duluth is the first city in Minnesota to coordinate law enforce- ment, criminal justice and human service agencies on the issue of domestic abuse. The purpose of the coordination is to adopt a com- mon set of policies and procedures directed at providing a uniform response to assailants in domestic assault cases. Under the umbrella of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP), nine agencies participate in this effort. The program's ultimate goal is to reduce the number of victims in Duluth experiencing continued assaults by their partners. It is designed to accomplish this goal by placing the responsibility for controlling the assailant on the law enforcement and criminal justice system while offering educational and support systems for the purpose of changing assailants' behavior. This article describes Duluth's Domestic Abuse Intervention Project and focuses on the criminal justice system's response to as- sault cases involving intimate partners. TRADITIONAL RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC ASSAULT CASES In recent years law enforcement and criminal justice agencies have been heavily criticized for what many believe to be an inade- quate response to domestic assault cases. A review of the literature and published research examining the effectiveness of traditional re- sponses depicts the need to re-examine public policy in this area and has led many to the conclusion that traditional responses actually contribute to perpetuating violence within families. Two points are consistently raised in the research on the nature of the criminal jus- tice system's response to battering. First, the nature of the relation- ship of the victim to the assailant tends to make both criminal justice and law enforcement officials treat these cases differently from other assaults. Second, there is no consistency in the responses within the overall criminal justice system or even within an individ- ual community's court and police departments. Police reluctance to interfere in family disputes has been noted Ms. Pence is the Director of Minnesota Program Development, Inc. and supervises the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth and the Range Intervention Project on the Iron Range.

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