@article{ref1,
title="Officer and organizational correlates with police interventions in domestic violence  in China",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2020",
author="Sun, Ivan Y. and Wu, Yuning and Wang, Xiying and Xue, Jia",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Although domestic violence has long been identified as a serious social problem in  China, little is known about police officers' attitudinal and behavioral tendencies  toward such incidents. Drawing upon survey data collected from police officers in  two Chinese provinces, this study assesses whether officer and organizational  factors are correlated to police inaction and intervention in resolving family  violence. More than a quarter of Chinese police officers often and sometime did not  take any action when responding to domestic violence. Chinese officers favored most  the least punitive approaches of mediation and separation, with the most punitive  actions, written warning and criminal sanction as the least preferred interventions. We found that Chinese officers with low levels of knowledge about the domestic  violence law, higher degrees of tolerance of violence and less supportive attitudes  toward an active police role in handling domestic violence are less willing to take  any action against the offenders. Chinese police officers who perceived stronger  supervisory support and expressed better knowledge about China's new domestic  violence law are more likely to intervene in domestic violence, whereas police  officers who expressed greater degrees of tolerance of violence and believed in  gender equality in society are less inclined to intervene. Policy makers and police  administrators ought to pay greater attention to frontline supervisors' attitudes  and behavior toward proper responses to family violence. If active intervention is  preferred, then measures and programs should be put into place to improve police  officers' legal knowledge and communication and problem-solving skills pertaining to  conflict resolution.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260520975694",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520975694"
}