Applying for and Dropping a Protection Order: A Study with 150 Women

Autor: Sheila Smith, Kathy Watson, Elizabeth Batten, Iva Hall, Julia Gist, Ann Malecha, Judith McFarlane
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Criminal Justice Policy Review. 14:486-504
ISSN: 1552-3586
0887-4034
DOI: 10.1177/0887403403255496
Popis: A total of 150 women who qualified for a protection order against an intimate partner wereinterviewed on the day of application and 3 months later to study factors associated with the receipt or dropping of a protection order. At 3 months, 54% of the women received protection orders, 28% dropped the process, and 18% did not receive protection orders. Differences (p < .05) in relationship status existed at intake between the women that received or dropped the protection order. Women who dropped were more likely in current relationships with the perpetrator, whereas protection order recipients considered the perpetrator a former partner. At intake and 3 months later, women in current relationships, irrespective of protection receipt or drop, reported significantly (p < .005) more physical assaults. Relationship status is a significant correlate of abused women’s receipt or dropping of a protection order as well as the level of assault experienced.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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