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7 Criminology & Pub. Pol'y 537 (2008)
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence: Moving beyond Criminal Justice Interventions

handle is hein.journals/crpp7 and id is 545 raw text is: POLICY ESSAY REDUCING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: MOVING BEYOND CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS RICHARD R. PETERSON New York City Criminal Justice Agency During the past three decades, the criminal justice system introduced many new policies and practices to address intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States. Most states instituted mandatory or pro-arrest policies for IPV offenders. Many district attorneys established specialized prosecution units and developed new policies, such as no-drop prosecu- tion and mandatory case filing, to ensure that arrests would be prosecuted and to increase conviction rates. The judiciary introduced specialized courts and postdisposition judicial monitoring, expanded access to orders of protection, and mandated batterer intervention programs to hold IPV offenders accountable. Probation departments established intensive super- vision programs for IPV offenders. Yet the new policies and practices have not been effective at specific deterrence, that is, deterring IPV offenders from committing new IPV offenses. Accumulating evidence shows that only a few criminal justice interventions have even a weak deterrent effect, and many have no effect. Evaluations of other interventions are inconsistent, insufficient, or not available. Given the substantial investment in criminal justice interven- tions, it is worth reviewing this evidence briefly., Arrest has a relatively small deterrent effect on IPV offenders (Max- well, Garner, and Fagan, 2002). Court-ordered batterer intervention programs also have, at best, small deterrent effects (Babcock, Green, and Robie, 2004; Feder and Wilson, 2005). Prosecution, conviction, and jail 1. This review relies on studies of criminal justice interventions that synthesized research results through either meta-analysis or careful assessment of available evidence. CRIMINOLOGY & Public Policy Volume 7 Number 4 Copyright 2008 American Society of Criminology 537

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