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Harrell, Adele, Yahner, Jennifer, Newmark, Lisa, and Visher, Christy. Evaluation of a Demonstration for Enhanced Judicial Oversight of Domestic Violence Cases in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Washtenaw County, Michigan; and Dorchester, Massachusetts; 1997-2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25924.v1
Adele Harrell, Urban Institute; Jennifer Yahner, Urban Institute; Lisa Newmark, Urban Institute; Christy Visher, Urban Institute
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25924.v1
abuse battered women court cases courts domestic violence intimate partner violence law enforcement victimization victims violence against women
Milwaukee United States Lowell Massachusetts Dorchester Wisconsin Michigan
1997 -- 2004 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: October 8, 1997, to December 21, 1999, and January 1, 2001, to May 21, 2002; Dorchester, Massachusetts: January 29, 2003, to November 11, 2004; Washtenaw County, Michigan: February 14, 2003, to April 4, 2003, August 27, 2004; Ingham County, Michigan: March 12, 2003, to March 12, 2004)
2003 -- 2005 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 2003-2005; Dorchester, Massachusetts: January 29, 2003, to November 11, 2004; Washtenaw County. Michigan: February 14, 2003, to April 4, 2003, and then from November 21, 2003, to October 29, 2004; Lowell, Massachusetts: January 29, 2003, to August 27, 2004; Ingham County, Michigan: March 12, 2003, to March 12, 2004)
The Judicial Oversight Demonstration (JOD) was designed to test the feasibility and impact of a coordinated response to intimate partner violence (IPV) that involved the courts and justice agencies in a central role. The primary goals were to protect victim safety, hold offenders accountable, and reduce repeat offending. The two primary evaluation objectives were: (1) to test the impact of JOD interventions on victim safety, offender accountability, and recidivism; and (2) to learn from the experiences of well-qualified sites who were given resources and challenged to build a collaboration between the courts and community agencies to respond to intimate partner violence.
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Washtenaw County, Michigan, participated in a quasi-experimental evaluation of the impact of the program. A comparison site was selected for each Judicial Oversight Demonstration (JOD) site: Lowell, Massachusetts, for Dorchester; and Ingham County, Michigan, for Washtenaw County. Intimate partner violence (IPV) cases reaching disposition during the JOD were compared. All IPV cases reaching disposition from approximately January 2003 to November 2004 (see Study Time Periods and Time Frames) were reviewed and included in the sample if appropriate. To be eligible for the sample, cases had to involve: (1) criminal IPV charges; (2) victims and offenders age 18 or older; and (3) victims and offenders who lived in the target jurisdiction at the time of case disposition. Cases that reached disposition more than a year after the incident were excluded to limit loss of data due to poor recall of the facts of the incident and police response.
In Dorchester, Massachusetts (Parts 1-7), and Washtenaw County, Michigan (Parts 7-14), all intimate partner violence (IPV) cases reaching disposition during the sampling periods were reviewed and included in the sample if appropriate. To be eligible for the sample, cases had to involve: (1) criminal IPV charges; (2) victims and offenders age 18 or older; and (3) victims and offenders who lived in the target jurisdiction at the time of case disposition. Cases that reached disposition more than a year after the incident were excluded to limit loss of data due to poor recall of the facts of the incident and police response.
For Parts 1-6, all intimate partner violence cases in Dorchester, Massachusetts, reaching disposition from January 29, 2003, to November 11, 2004, and all intimate partner violence cases in Lowell, Massachusetts, reaching disposition from January 29, 2003, to August 27, 2004.
individual (Part 7), incident (Part 20), month by year by law enforcement type (Part 11), month/year (Parts 1-6, 9, 10, and 12-19), month by year by program type (Part 8)
record abstracts face-to-face interview telephone interview
The data files contain information related to each site's Batterer Intervention Programs (Parts 1, 8, and 15), court data (Parts 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18), law enforcement (Parts 3, 11, and 17), and victim data (Parts 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 19).
For Massachusetts and Michigan (Parts 1-14), response rates for victims and offenders exceeded 80 percent in both the JOD and comparison samples. Of the sample members eligible for a followup interview, about 90 percent of the victims and 84 percent of the offenders completed the follow up survey. Response rates for Milwaukee (Part 15-20) were not available.
2011-04-29 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: