Do fair procedures matter? The effect of procedural justice on spouse assault.

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, eve...

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Published in:	Law & Society Review Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 163 - 205
Main Authors:	Paternoster, Raymond, Brame, Robert, Bachman, Ronet
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell 1997
Subjects:	Arrest Punishment in crime deterrence Police intervention Fairness Wife abuse Police Milwaukee (Wis.) United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost