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Impact of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1976-1997
(3 datasets; 6368 KB)
Principal Investigator(s): Dugan, Laura, University of Maryland. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
DS1: Local Policy Data - Download All Files (4.872 MB)
DS2: State Statutes Data - Download All Files (2.296 MB)
Dugan, Laura. Impact of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1976-1997. ICPSR25621-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25621.v1
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25621.v1
Subject Terms: arrests, crime reporting, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, police reports, policy analysis, state legislatures, victim services
Geographic Coverage: Albuquerque, Arizona, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, California, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Columbus (Ohio), Dallas, Denver, Detroit, District of Columbia, El Paso, Florida, Fort Worth, Fresno, Georgia, Hawaii, Honolulu, Houston, Illinois, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City (Missouri), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Memphis, Miami, Michigan, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Missouri, Nashville, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Orleans, New York (state), Oakland, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland (Oregon), Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tennessee, Texas, Toledo, Tucson, Tulsa, United States, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Washington, Wisconsin
1976--1996 (Part 1)
1976--1997 (Part 2)
Unit of Observation: Part 1: Local police agency by year. Part 2: State by year.
Universe: Part 1: All local police and prosecution policies, and victim services in 48 cities implemented between 1976-1996. Part 2: All state statutes related to protection orders in 50 states and the District of Columbia in place between 1976-1997.
Study Purpose: The goal of this research was to understand the influence of jurisdictions' domestic violence policy on violent behavior of family member and intimate partner. There were also two secondary objectives: (1) to test the relationship between policy and the likelihood that the police discover an incident, and (2) to examine how policy relates to the likelihood that the police make an arrest.
Study Design: This study combined data from two parts. For both parts, data were retrieved from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Reports, from the Bureau of Census, or were collected by the researchers. Part 1 contains data on local policy. There were 1,050 cases, one for each jurisdiction for each year. Informants within the local agencies of the 50 largest cities in the United States were contacted and asked to complete a survey inventorying policies and activities by type and year of implementation. The crux of this data collection strategy was to minimize measurement error by identifying the person(s) best positioned in the agency to answer the questions, and by phrasing the questions in standardized format, typically calling for a simple "yes/no" response. Part 2 contains data on state statutes. A total of 1,122 cases, one for each state by year, were included. Longitudinal data on state statutes related to protection orders were collected by a legal expert for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Sample: For Part 1 (Local Policy Data), information on local policy and Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits (AFDC) was only available for 48 of the largest 50 cities in the United States from 1976 to 1996. Specifically, completed surveys were received with no missing data on prosecutor policies for all 50 cities, police policies for all but New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, and domestic violence services for all but New York, NY. AFDC benefit levels were adjusted to 1983 dollars using the consumer price index. For Part 2 (State Statutes Data), information on state statutes was available for all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the years 1976-1997.
Description of Variables: For Part 1 (Local Policy Data), variables on local resources include the number of hotlines in a city, a police index of the characteristics of local police department, a prosecution index of prosecution characteristics that provide support to victims of domestic violence, and the number of Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits (AFDC) adjusted to 1983 dollars. For Part 2 (State Statutes Data), policy variables include five statute provisions and a discretion index which describes the available types of sanction.
Response Rates: Part 1 (Local Policy Data): Completed surveys were received with no missing data on prosecutor policies for all 50 cities in the United States, police policies for all but New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, and domestic violence services for all but New York, NY. Part 2 (State Statutes Data): Not applicable.
Dugan, Laura, Nagin, Daniel S., Rosenfeld, Richard . The Effects of State and Local Domestic Violence Policy on Intimate Partner Homicide. Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy . .
Dugan, Laura . Domestic Violence Policy: Exploring Impacts on Informing Police, Arresting the Offender, and Deterring Domestic Violence. Final Report . NCJ 196854, .
Dugan, Laura . Identifying unit-dependency and time-specificity in longitudinal analysis: A graphical methodology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology . 18, (3), 213-237.
Dugan, Laura, Nagin, Daniel, Rosenfeld, Richard . Exposure Reduction or Backlash? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on Intimate Partner Homicide. Executive Summary . NCJ 186193, .
Dugan, Laura, Nagin, Daniel, Rosenfeld, Richard . Exposure Reduction or Backlash? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on Intimate Partner Homicide. Final Report . NCJ 186194, .
Dugan, Laura . Domestic Violence Legislation: Exploring Its Impact on Domestic Violence and the Likelihood that Police are Informed and Arrest. Final Report . NCJ 196853, Baltimore, MD: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland.