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Enhancing police responses to domestic violence incidents : reports from client advocates in New South Wales Jane Goodman-Delahunty & Anna Corbo Crehan

By: Goodman-Delahunty, Jane.
Contributor(s): Corbo Crehan, Anna.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleSeries: Violence Against Women.Publisher: Sage, 2015Subject(s): DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | JUSTICE | POLICE PROCEDURES | VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | AUSTRALIA | NEW SOUTH WALESOnline resources: Read the abstract In: Violence Against Women, 2015, Advance online publication, 13 November 2015Summary: In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. (from the abstract). Record #4852
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Violence Against Women, 2015, Advance online publication, 13 November 2015

In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. (from the abstract). Record #4852