TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - The role of arrest in domestic assault: the Omaha police experiment
JO  - Criminology
A1  - Dunford, Franklyn W.
A1  - Huizinga, David
A1  - Elliott, Delbert S.
SP  - 183
EP  - 206
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1990.tb01323.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -