CJ-7105 V2: Public Policy & Criminal Justice

Corvo, K. (2019). Early‐life risk for domestic violence perpetration: Implications for practice and policy. Infant Mental Health Journal, 40(1), 152–164. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21762
The researcher investigated the risks and causes of domestic violence. The main discussion is to determine if domestic violence is hampered by a policy framework that may not only fund but also suppress some cases. Ideological, political, and historical issues were considered when developing the policy framework. Related explanatory theories and theories of practice are summarized.

Durfee, A., & Goodmark, L. (2020). Domestic violence mandatory arrest policies and arrests for same-sex and opposite-sex intimate partner violence after legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law & Society, 33(3), 231–255.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2020.1786279
This article talks about the 2015 United States Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which invalidated restrictions on same-sex marriage and made legal protections more widely available to survivors of same-sex IPV. The researcher analyzed the arrests in same-sex and opposite-sex IPV. The resource was the 2016 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) which was the first data set after the Obergefell decision.