@article{ref1,
title="Understanding decision-making in specialized domestic violence courts: can contemporary theoretical frameworks help guide these decisions?",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2017",
author="Pinchevsky, Gillian M.",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="749-771",
abstract="This study fills a gap in the literature by exploring the utility of contemporary courtroom theoretical frameworks-uncertainty avoidance, causal attribution, and focal concerns-for explaining decision-making in specialized domestic violence courts. Using data from two specialized domestic violence courts, this study explores the predictors of prosecutorial and judicial decision-making and the extent to which these factors are congruent with theoretical frameworks often used in studies of court processing. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that these theoretical frameworks only partially help explain decision-making in the courts under study. A discussion of the findings and implications for future research is provided.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801216648792",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801216648792"
}