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NCJ 201870
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Title:
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Everett, Washington, Arrest Policies Project: A Process Evaluation
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Author(s):
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Deborah L. Spence
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Corporate Author:
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Institute for Law and Justice
United States
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Date Published:
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10/2000 |
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Page Count:
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22 |
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Sponsoring Agency:
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Grant Number:
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98-WE-VX-0012 |
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Sale Source:
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NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States
Institute for Law and Justice
1219 Prince Street, Suite 2
Alexandria, VA 22314
United States |
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Document:
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PDF |
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Dataset:
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03795 |
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Type:
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Program/project evaluations |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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This evaluation report on the Everett Arrest Policies Project
(Washington State) -- a Federal grant project intended to
encourage jurisdictions to implement mandatory or proarrest
policies as an effective domestic-violence intervention that is
part of a coordinated community response -- addresses the project
environment, as well as the development and implementation of the Everett Domestic Violence Unit. |
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Abstract:
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The city was awarded two 18-month Arrest Program grants to
implement a Domestic Violence Enhanced Prosecution Effectiveness
project, which includes a Domestic Violence Unit (DVU) to be
administered by the City Attorney's Office. The DVU is a
collaboration with various local partners, primarily the Everett
Police Department and the Snohomish County Center for battered
Women. The DVU was launched with a $314,005 Arrest Program grant
awarded in March 1997. The project's overall goal was to increase
the successful prosecution of misdemeanor domestic-violence
charges by 50 percent within 18 months. Key project personnel
proposed for the project were a city prosecutor to handle all
domestic-violence cases, a police sergeant, a victim/witness
coordinator, and an office assistant. The second grant supported
one full-time advocate to serve residents. The process evaluation
obtained relevant data from interviews, program documentation,
and a review of local statistics. The evaluation determined that
the Arrest Project has met its primary measure of success; the
percentage of successful prosecutions, compared to the number of
cases referred, has increased since the project began; however,
despite intentions stated in project goals and objectives,
advocacy has become a separate entity outside the project. There
is room for considerable expansion of the role played by the
Snohomish County Center for Battered Women. This would improve
the project's efforts to enhance victim safety. As of the time of
the evaluation's site visit, not much was being done to increase
the role of probation in the project. Without improvements in the
monitoring of probationers, the only way the project can hold
batterers accountable is through rigorous, victimless
prosecution, and this might jeopardize victim safety. The
implementation of project plans for judicial education would also
improve both victim safety and offender accountability. |
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Main Term(s):
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Female victims |
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Index Term(s):
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Probation ; State laws ; Interagency cooperation ; Prosecution ; Victim services ; Court management ; Domestic assault ; Private sector-government cooperatn ; Restraining orders ; Domestic assault prevention ; Victims of violence ; Police domestic violence training ; Domestic assault arrest policies ; Anti-stalking laws ; NIJ grant-related documents ; Washington |
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Note:
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Dataset may be archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
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