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decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …
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decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486081
reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …
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We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when they cannot directly observe whether a given male partner is of a violent type or not. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data...
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A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find … that Holi exacerbates existing attitudes towards violence against women, where there is higher violence in districts where …
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decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262485
decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263924
This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims … mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and an increase in … leave abusive relationships, the requirement for mutual consent may inadvertently escalate violence as husbands seek to …
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Objective: Third-party policing (TPP) refers to police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties to take some … responsibility for crime control and prevention. The Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances (YEOs) of Japan aim to combat organized crime … crime. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of the YEOs' effect suggests the effectiveness of enforcement policies that …
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