Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e7IH8V826557; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:08:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:08:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000f01c00936$92e77460$0d00000a@deborah01> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Deborah Schwartz" <deborah@alri.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:921] RE: Research results X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1921 Lines: 46 Kathleen, This sounds like an unprecedented stuy that you and Andres are doing! Are you looking at economic factors as one of the variables? Deborah Schwartz Adult LIteracy Resource Institue Boston, MA ----- Original Message ----- From: <KathleenBombach@aol.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:920] RE: Research results > Janet: > I think everyone working with or experiencing domestic violence wants to know > what works. The available research says that criminal prosecution works > better than anything else (counseling, restraining orders, leaving, etc.). Of > course, for criminal prosecution to work, support systems for women, > especially financially dependent women, must be in place. The law enforcement > system in some states have taken a giant step forward in arresting and > prosecuting automatically, without the women having to "press charges" and > becoming even more abused or dead if she does. > I think personally that federal prosecution for violation of civil rights > would be very salutatory to recalcitrant law enforcement agencies. Sometimes > the law needs to lead popular sentiment rather than follow it. > It is interesting to me that law enforcement began to take the issue > seriously both because of women's activism and because they realized that > domestic violence calls are the most dangerous (to the police) of all the > calls they take. Self-preservation! > Unfortunately for border communities the police are identified with the > border patrol and may women fear reporting domestic violence for fear of > deportation (this is a different issue than incidence rates). Also, > immigrants expect all law enforcement to act like law enforcement in their > home countries. > I think the research Andres and I are doing will lead to more questions than > it answers. > Kathleen >
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