Thursday, January 03, 2008

[USA] Convicting and incarcerating felony offenders of intimate assault and the odds of new assault charges
Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 35, Issue 4, July-August 2007, Pages 379-389
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John Wooldredge
"The effectiveness of harsher sanctions for domestic violence offenders is an important topic given legislative trends in “getting tough” with these offenders. This article takes a rare look at domestic violence, specifically felony assaults on female intimates, with an analysis of whether conviction, jail, and imprisonment are related to the odds of subsequent charges among 353 male defendants from twenty-four Ohio trial courts of general jurisdiction."
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