@article{ref1,
title="The role of arrest in domestic assault: the Omaha police experiment",
journal="Criminology",
year="1990",
author="Dunford, Franklyn W. and Huizinga, David and Elliott, Delbert S.",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="183-206",
abstract="This paper reports on a replication of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment in Omaha, Nebraska. Suspects who were eligible for the experiment were randomly assigned to one of three police dispositions: mediation, separation, or arrest. No differences by disposition were found in prevalence or frequency of repeat offending, using jive measures of recidivism to assess outcome six months after police intervention. A survival analysis, using three of the measures for which dates of failure were available, also produced no differences by disposition<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1384",
doi="10.1111/j.1745-9125.1990.tb01323.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1990.tb01323.x"
}