Arresting Abuse
Mandatory Legal Interventions, Power, and Intimate Abusers

A study of the effects of mandatory arrest and no-drop prosecution on offenders. It argues that the promise for defeating intimate partner abuse lies in better matching the tactics of state power to the goals of victim empowerment and offender responsibility and to exercise such force through mechanisms that do not exacerbate social inequality.

A key contribution to domestic violence literature as well as to socio-legal scholarship on the power of the law as a force for social change, "Arresting Abuse" argues that the promise for defeating intimate partner abuse lies in better matching the tactics of state power to the goals of victim empowerment and offender responsibility and to exercise such force through mechanisms that do not exacerbate social inequality.