CRM 202 Lecture Notes - Extraordinary Measures, Social Isolation, Victimology
28 Nov 2013
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Thursday, march 28th, 2013: zero tolerance /mandatory charging for spousal abuse. Tensions with full implementation of mandatory charging. Concerns about mandatory charging as a policy response to spousal violence: violence against immigrant and ethnoracial women. Wachholz and miedema, 2000: film: hunting bobby oatway. Landau, t. women"s experiences with mandatory charging for wife assault in ontario, canada:a case. Against the prosecution. international review of victimology. (special issue on domestic violence) 7(1,2,3): 141-157, 2000: more than 70% of women contacted the police themselves, although there were witnesses in over 50% of cases. Women contacted the police because: they were afraid for their lives they wanted police to stop the assault they were concerned about harm to their children that assault was worse than previous assaults. What women wanted the police to do removed their spouse from the house (30%) stop the assault (17%) talk to/warn their spouse (16%) lay charges (15%)
