@article{ref1,
title="From initial deterrence to longterm escalation: short-custody arrest for poverty ghetto domestic violence",
journal="Criminology",
year="1991",
author="Sherman, Lawrence W. and Schmidt, Janell D. and Rogan, Dennis P. and Gartin, Patrick R. and Cohn, Ellen G. and Collins, Dean J. and Bacich, Anthony R.",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="821-850",
abstract="Persons arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence are held in custody for widely varying lengths of time. To test the effects of this variance, we randomly assigned short (X̄= 2.8 hours), full (X̄= 11.1 hours), and no arrests (warning only) to a sample of 1,200 cases with predominantly unemployed suspects concentrated in black ghetto poverty neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Victim interviews and one official measure showed that short arrest had a substantial initial deterrent effect relative to the warning group. Longer term follow-up and before-after analysis, however, found neither arrest group reflected any deterrence. On the most comprehensive official measure, short arrest consistently showed significantly higher long-term recidivism than no arrest. Its deterrent effect ended at 30 days, but its criminogenic effect was significant after one year. We conclude that short-custody arrests for domestic violence in poverty ghetto areas may pose a dilemma between short- and long-term crime control, but longer custody arrests have no clear long-term effect in either direction.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1384",
doi="10.1111/j.1745-9125.1991.tb01089.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1991.tb01089.x"
}