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dc.contributor.authorThistlethwaite, Amyen
dc.contributor.authorWooldredge, Johnen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:26:40Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:26:40Z-
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.identifier.citation18 (1), March 2002en
dc.identifier.issn7484518en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16535-
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherPlenum Pub. Corpen
dc.subjectInformal responsesen
dc.subjectPerpetratorsen
dc.subjectCriminal justice responsesen
dc.titleReconsidering domestic violence recidivism: conditioned effects of legal controls by individual and aggregate levels of stake in conformityen
dc.title.alternativeJournal of Quantitative Criminologyen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid3227en
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.subject.keywordJournal article/research paperen
dc.subject.keywordInternationalen
dc.description.notesThis article presents US research on the possible relationship between court dispositions and an offender’s stake in conformity. Social scientists have applied criminological approaches to examine whether stake in conformity conditions the deterrent effect of arrest for domestic violence recidivism. A literature review on legal interventions beyond arrest and on contextual effects of social structure on recidivism is provided. The prevalence of re-arrest for domestic violence is studied for 3,110 suspects. The results show a significant effect involving higher re-arrest likelihoods for arrested suspects with no formal charges. Findings for the conditioned effects of court dispositions show significantly lower re-arrest likelihoods for higher stake offenders undergoing a counselling programme (a predicted relationship), and significantly lower re-arrest likelihoods for lower stake offenders serving probation and or jail (not a predicted relationship). At the neighbourhood level, sentences of probation and/or jail show significantly lower re-arrest likelihoods for offenders living in neighbourhoods with more residentially stable populations (predicted). Probation or jail sentences coincide with lower re-arrest likelihoods for offenders with lower economic status but higher re-arrest likelihoods for offenders in less residentially stable neighbourhoods could reflect different social processes. It concludes that relationships between legal controls and domestic violence recidivism may be conditioned by informal social controls operating at both the micro and macro levels. Relationships for some of the court dispositions seem to be conditioned by all aspects of offender stake (residential stability, highest education and economic status) yet at the neighbourhood level, these relationships are conditioned only by residential stability. The role of collectivism in more residentially stable neighbourhoods, possible labelling effects of legal controls for higher stake offenders and perceptions of justice are suggested as areas for future studies.en
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of quantitative criminologyen
dc.date.entered2005-11-03en
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