Hare Sara C
Indiana University Southeast, New Albany 47150, USA.
Violence Vict. 2006 Oct;21(5):611-28.
Prosecutors have increasingly adopted mandatory prosecution in domestic violence criminal cases. There is little empirical evidence, however, that the policy is a good match for victims' needs. Interviews with 94 battered women, whose cases were randomly selected from prosecutors' files, focused on their opinions of prosecuting. A logistic regression explores the factors that predict whether victims favor or oppose prosecution. Open-ended responses are coded into themes using the goals of sentencing literature as a framework. Previous published works are also tentatively grouped into the same themes to look for trends in the field. The most frequent reason why victims oppose prosecution is that the crime is too minor to justify a penalty.
在家庭暴力刑事案件中，检察官越来越多地采用强制起诉政策。然而，几乎没有实证证据表明该政策符合受害者的需求。从检察官档案中随机抽取94名受虐妇女的案件进行访谈，重点关注她们对起诉的看法。通过逻辑回归分析来探究预测受害者支持或反对起诉的因素。以量刑文献的目标为框架，将开放式回答编码成主题。先前发表的作品也初步归为相同主题，以探寻该领域的趋势。受害者反对起诉最常见的原因是犯罪情节太轻微，不足以施以刑罚。
