Improving Coordinated Responses for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Law Enforcement Compliance With State-Mandated Intimate Partner Violence Documentation

Catherine Cerulli; Elizabeth A. Edwardsen; Dale Hall; Ko Ling Chan; Kenneth R. Conner

doi:10.1177/1077801215584072

Improving Coordinated Responses for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Law Enforcement Compliance With State-Mandated Intimate Partner Violence Documentation

Catherine Cerulli, Elizabeth A. Edwardsen, Dale Hall, Ko Ling Chan, Kenneth R. Conner

Graduate School of Social Welfare

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Abstract

New York State law mandates specific intimate partner violence (IPV) documentation under all circumstances meeting the enumerated relationship and crime criteria at the scene of a domestic dispute. Law enforcement compliance with this mandate is unknown. We reviewed law enforcement completion rates of Domestic Violence Incident Reports (DVIRs) and assessed correlations with individual or legal factors. Law enforcement officers filed DVIRs in 54% of the cases (n = 191), more often when injury occurred (p <.01) and the defendant had prior court contact (p <.05). The discussion explores policy implications and potential means to rectify the gap between mandated processes and implementation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	897-907
Number of pages	11
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	21
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801215584072
Publication status	Published - 2015 Jul 6

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by Grants T32MH18911 (E. D. Caine, PI), K01MH075965 (C. Cerulli, PI), and P20 MH071897 (E. D. Caine, PI).

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