McGlynn, Clare and Westmarland, Nicole and Johnson, Kelly (2018) 'Under the radar : the widespread use of 'out of court resolutions' in policing domestic violence and abuse in the United Kingdom.', British journal of criminology., 58 (1). pp. 1-16.
Abstract
The suitability of ‘out of court resolutions’ (restorative justice and community resolutions) in cases of domestic abuse is theoretically contentious and empirically under-researched. This study investigated the nature and extent of out of court resolutions for domestic abuse using the Freedom of Information Act. Out of court resolutions were used by every UK police force except Scotland to respond to over 5,000 domestic abuse incidents (including intimate partner abuse) in 2014. Some of these incidents related to offences with sentencing tariffs up to life imprisonment. Such widespread use has been taking place ‘under the radar’ in stark contrast to police guidance, has immediate implications for policy and practice, and fundamentally shifts the research terrain in this field.
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (642Kb) |
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| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx004 |
| Publisher statement: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Date accepted: | 20 December 2016 |
| Date deposited: | 11 January 2017 |
| Date of first online publication: | 28 February 2017 |
| Date first made open access: | 01 March 2017 |
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