The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (MDVE)
The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (MDVE) looked at the potential protective impact of police involvement on domestic violence. The experiment was primarily a field test where police responses to real offenders, such as adult cohabitation or spouse assault in a misdemeanor state, were controlled by unplanned assignment rather than the officer's discretion. Second, the experiment supported the widespread propensity for arrest-oriented tactics among major city police agencies. (Chatzifotiou, Fotou, & Moisides, 2016). In this essay, I look at the factors that the researchers should have looked at instead of racial and unemployment data. I also contend that better policy suggestions would enhance victim reporting. Variables the researchers should have examined rather than unemployment and racial status and why?
The Cynicism of Law Enforcement Officers
The cynicism of the law enforcement officers is the greatest common attitude the researchers should have studied. The impact of a police engagement cynical understanding as opposed to the optimistic assessment has continuing concerns. A negative or unhelpful experience with the police poses an obstacle to victims disengaging themselves from abusive relationships or even contributes to a consequent unwillingness to seek police intervention.
Bias and Ill Trust of Police Officers, Prosecutors, and Judiciary
Bias and ill trust of police officers, prosecutors, and judiciary are other variables the researchers should have examined. Police and judges occasionally fail to interpret domestic violence as an offense. Police are habitually hostile to survivors in addition to treating them or even the abuser in such a belittling way (Buzawa, & Stark, 2015). Judges and Police frequently never, accepted as true, the survivors or held responsible the survivors for violence faced and so not took the contentions of domestic ferocity and sexually assault seriously.
Prioritization of Other Crimes by State or Federal Governments and Judiciary
Prioritization of other crimes by state or federal governments and judiciary is another variable the researchers should have examined. Most laws on domestic violence do not provide for attempted domestic violence as a crime. Domestic violence as a crime has no mandatory minimum sentence compared to the rest of offenses. Judge's discretion gives the liberty not to justify any dispositions and sentencing to victims. Since domestic violence is a misdemeanor, no appeal from court decisions. Police often neglect the backgrounds to such domestic violence like; the fact that the batterer, often the breadwinner, are always under such influences like alcohol or drugs and that the victim's parents correlated with abuse between victim's abuse and parents, as a child. Such neglect causes a repetition of the violence to the same victims.
Policy Recommendations to Increase Reporting by Victims
Policy recommendations I recommend to increase reporting by victims:
The system on criminal integrity must approve policies that tolerate victims to play a central part in the criminal judicial course of US. It is a must the policies reflect an assertiveness that the justice structure exists because of the victims not regardless of the victims. Victims' irresistible desire to possess a dynamic role in disposition and prosecution of any criminal suit stems to uphold sensitive and fair victims treatment never from a retaliation need, to have victim's role in acknowledged justice procedure, and also to make aware the judicial process to the financial emotional, and physical effect of crime on the victims and nation in general.
Legislation must be amended or enacted at the local, state and Federal levels to afford victims with a right to hand in victim effect statements oral, written, audio, video or any other automated means at a sentencing time as well as parole establishments. Some empirical statistics collected document facts that majority of sufferers face an overwhelming retaliation fear from the offender after hand over victim effect testimonies. There is a heightening of such fear regularly where the victims discover they have to confront the offender in open ground like parole panel or courtroom settings. Usage of original victim effect statements will lessen the fear for a majority of casualties and might result in amplified victim contribution.
All professionals in criminal impartiality who impact on a procedure of the victim effect declaration in whichever way have to possess a comprehensive understanding of state's case law and legislation on use and submission of victim effect statements. All such agencies interacting with victims must maintain supplemental guides and instruments on victim effect testimonial which enlighten the victims on victim effect testimonials significance; right to offer one; as well as the use of such victim effect testimonials by the criminal integrity systems. Victims networks Statewide, criminal integrity agencies and coalitions must collectively join to assess the usefulness of statute on victim impact testimony and, if such is inadequate, labor together to revise the law (Goldscheid, 2015). The continuing training and education on the traumatic impact of victimization of crime need to be availed to an entirety of professionals of the criminal integrity course, to include police, who often interact with the victims.
In Conclusion
In conclusion, advocates of a victim for quite a while have concerned themselves with victims not identified by system on criminal integrity. I call out for better correspondence between victim and society interests generally for such reasons like fear of retaliation or such other consequences that could result, from victims' perspective. Second, most agencies often call for screening for explanations that are less ideal, idiosyncratic for organizational or individual factors irrelevant to a given situation.
References
Chatzifotiou, S., Fotou, E., & Moisides, I. (2016), Best practices in liaising between the police and social services in confronting incidents of domestic violence. Social Cohesion And Development, 9(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/scad.8899
Goldscheid, J., Coker, D., Park, S., Neal, T., & Halstead, V. (2015), Responses from the Field: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Policing. https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2015.10.20_report_-_responses_from_the_field.pdf
Buzawa, E. S., Buzawa, C. G., & Stark, E. D. (2015), Responding to domestic violence: The integration of criminal justice and human services. Sage Publications, https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=Vg-KrOyoFTkC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=Responding+to+Domestic+Violence:+The+Integration+of+Criminal+Justice+and+...+By+Eve+S+Buzawa,+Carl+G+Buzawa,+Evan+Stark&source=bl&ots=xXLnGs6gPZ&sig=Mo_Ipm7kzN-xyGAFXhbkK8RRUWg&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
