TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - From initial deterrence to longterm escalation: short-custody arrest for poverty ghetto domestic violence
JO  - Criminology
A1  - Sherman, Lawrence W.
A1  - Schmidt, Janell D.
A1  - Rogan, Dennis P.
A1  - Gartin, Patrick R.
A1  - Cohn, Ellen G.
A1  - Collins, Dean J.
A1  - Bacich, Anthony R.
SP  - 821
EP  - 850
VL  - 29
IS  - 4
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1991.tb01089.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -