| Sumario: | The writers reanalyzed the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment in order to investigate whether the use of fair procedures on the part of police officers called to the scene of a domestic assault inhibits subsequent assault. As they had expected, procedural justice curbed subsequent violence, even in the face of adverse outcomes. Their analysis revealed that when police acted in a procedurally fair manner in arresting assault suspects, the rate of subsequent domestic violence was significantly lower than when they did not act in a fair manner. In addition, arrested suspects who perceived that they were treated in a procedurally fair manner had subsequent assault rates that were as low as those of suspects who were given a more favorable outcome, that is, warned and then released without arrest. The writers observed that the suppression effect of procedural justice was not dependent on the personal temperament of suspects.
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