Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the … based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of …

In this paper, we estimate a stochastic-dynamic model for domestic violence using data collected by the Minneapolis … Domestic Violence Experiment. Our primary finding is that arrest deters domestic violence, but the effect wears off quite … quickly. We find also that current employment for the male is associated with lower levels of violence. Like arrest, the …