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Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 453-474 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.06
Reporting to the Police as a Response to Intimate Partner Violence
- Zuzana Podaná
- Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Research on police involvement in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) focuses mainly on best intervention strategies and often neglects the key prerequisite of any intervention: the victim's decision to contact the police. This article concentrates on the circumstances that make IPV incidents more likely to be reported to the police, and it also analyses the reasons for victims' not reporting and for their distrust of the police. It makes use of data from the Czech part of the International Violence Against Women Survey, which allows us to analyse the reporting behaviour of 709 female victims of IPV. The reporting rate among them is very low - only 8%. Logistic regression models of reporting confirmed the high relevance of the features of the particular incident and revealed also several factors related to the history of violence in the relationship; on the other hand, the victim's resources were found to have no influence. Distrust of the police proved to be an important factor for not reporting to the police (29% of wom
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Jane Velez-Mitchell
Jodi Arias Murder Trial Case; Jodi Has Down And Dirty Defense; Rebuttal Between Prosecution Witness and Defense Attorney About Jodi`s Diagnosies Of Borderline Personality Disorder; Arias Could Face Death Penalty for Murdering Her Ex-Boyfriend; Arias Claims He Killed Travis In Self Defense
Aired April 17, 2013 - 19:00 ET
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JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HLN HOST (on-camera): Tonight, is Jodi Arias calling in sick again or is she stalling, again? As the clock ticks down in the trial, Jodi`s team takes a page right out of prosecutor Juan Martinez`s Playbook and get down and dirty with the rebuttable shrink on the witness stand. Listen to this.
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JENNIFER WALCOTT, JODI ARIAS` DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You don`t believe that Jodi is a battered woman, right?
DR. JANEEN DEMARTE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: I believe there are inconsistencies in her report.
WILLMOTT: You told us yesterday -- that`s not what I asked you.
DR. DEMARTE: You are adding the word psychologist to it.
WILLMOTT: You didn`t speak to anybody else.
DR. DEMARTE: Right. That what happens all the time. That`s part of w
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Murder of Travis Alexander
2008 parricide of deal with American public servant in Plateau, Arizona
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Background
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