Enhancing police responses to domestic violence incidents : reports from client advocates in New South Wales

Goodman-Delahunty, Jane

Enhancing police responses to domestic violence incidents : reports from client advocates in New South Wales Jane Goodman-Delahunty & Anna Corbo Crehan - Sage, 2015 - Violence Against Women .

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


DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
JUSTICE
POLICE PROCEDURES
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE


AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES