SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Etiology, Shoplifting, 2 Live Crew
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Avoid pressure to drop: ontario policy: Decision to charge not influenced by: lack of co-operation in investigation: or if they attend court. Designed to: encourage reporting, relieve responsibility of reporting. Mandatory charging research: unaware of no-drop policies, disempowering like mandatory charging not prosecution. Arrest to help a bad situation (see chart 5) Resistance to co-operate in prosecution: more than just fear of abuser, issues with cjs as a solution. Police are a blunt tool re-victimize. Does not address underlying causes of violence: improvement in perception of cjs. If you want a charge: race-class-citizenship-geographic intersections. It (the literature giving advice to battered women) doesn"t tell women that most women who are killed by their partners are killed when they attempt to take action to stop the abuse. Women are told that the police will respond and will protect them. It doesn"t tell them that the police may listen to her husband and tell her she is to blame.
