Do Arrests and Restraining Orders Work?

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In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research methods and analyses are presented and a number of issues raised. These include: whether the criminal justice response to domestic violence is inadequate; whether there is a conflict of interest between society and the victim of violence; and whether alternative means should be used to deter chronic batterers who are undeterred by the criminal justice response.

Introduction - Eve S Buzawa and Carl G Buzawa Identifying Offenders in Criminal Justice Research on Domestic Assualt - Murray A Straus Constraints against Family Violence - Richard J Gelles

How Well Do They Work? Does Arrest Deter Domestic Violence? - Janell D Schmidt and Lawrence W Sherman Realities and Implications of the Charlotte Spouse Abuse Experiment - J David Hirschel and Ira W Hutchison The Preventive Conceit - Peter K Manning

The Black Box in Market Context Battered Women and the Criminal Justice System - Barbara Hart Mandatory Arrest of Batterers - Evan Stark

A Reply to Its Critics The Role of Arrest in Domestic versus Stranger Assault - Eve S Buzawa, Thomas L Austin and Carl G Buzawa

Is There a Difference? Prosecution Response to Domestic Violence - Donald J Rebovich

Results of a Survey of Large Jurisdictions Re-Abuse in a Population of Court-Restrained Male Batterers - Andrew R Klein

Why Restraining Orders Don't Work Effects of Restraining Orders on Domestic Violence Victims - Adele Harrell and Barbara E Smith Future Directions for Criminal Justice Policy on Domestic Violence - David A Ford et al