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75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 552 (2006-2007)
Domestic Violence as a Crime of Pattern and Intent: An Alternative Reconceptualization

handle is hein.journals/gwlr75 and id is 562 raw text is: Domestic Violence as a Crime of Pattern and Intent: An Alternative Reconceptualization Alafair S. Burke* Table of Contents Introduction .................................................... 553 I. The Resort to Criminal Law ............................ 557 II. Why Domestic Violence Is Different ................... 566 A. Quantitative Factors: Frequency and Duration ...... 567 B. Qualitative Factors: Power and Control ............. 568 III. The Failure of Existing Law to Reflect the Realities of D om estic Violence ...................................... 572 A. Evidentiary Limitations ............................. 573 B. Effects on Victim Satisfaction and Participation .... 575 C. Discursive Limitations .............................. 578 D. Severity of Punishment ............................. 582 IV. Threshold Considerations in Enacting a Separate O ffense ................................................. 585 A. Concerns About Overcriminalization ............... 585 B. The Ability of Criminal Law to Reflect the Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Domestic V iolence ............................................ 588 1. Moving Beyond Individual Incidents ........... 588 2. Inculpatory M otives ............................ 592 V. Defining Domestic Violence as a Separate Crime ...... 595 A. Professor Tuerkheimer's Proposal ................... 596 1. D octrine ........................................ 597 a. Inchoate Liability and Mens Rea ........... 597 b. Specificity ................................... 599 2. D iscourse ....................................... 600 * Associate Professor, Hofstra University School of Law. B.A., Reed College; J.D, Stan- ford Law School. I would like to thank John Gregory, Joanna Grossman, Donna Lee, and Joan Meier for their helpful comments on previous drafts. I would also like to thank participants in the Northeast People of Color Conference and a faculty workshop at Hofstra, where earlier versions of this Article were presented. I am grateful to Cynthia Leigh, Reference Librarian for the Hofstra Law Library, and to Toi Frederick and Matthew Connolly for their dedicated re- search assistance. April 2007 Vol. 75 No. 3

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