University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2011 May;26(8):1559-78. doi: 10.1177/0886260510370592. Epub 2010 Aug 18.
Domestic violence arrests have been historically focused on protecting women and children from abusive men. Arrest patterns continue to reflect this bias with more men arrested for domestic violence compared to women. Such potential gender variations in arrest patterns pave the way to the investigation of disparities by sex of the offender in domestic violence arrests. This study utilizes data from a quantitative dataset that includes responses by police officers who completed a specially mandated checklist after responding to a domestic dispute. The results showed that while females are arrested quite often in domestic disputes, there remains a significant difference in the arrest outcome whereby male suspects were more likely to be arrested than female suspects. Regression models further indicated differences based on sex and certain predictors of arrest, which supported sex-based rationales in arrests for domestic violence.
家庭暴力逮捕历来侧重于保护妇女和儿童免受虐待男性的侵害。逮捕模式继续反映出这种偏见，即与女性相比，更多的男性因家庭暴力而被捕。这种潜在的逮捕模式性别差异为调查家庭暴力犯罪者性别的差异铺平了道路。本研究利用了来自一个定量数据集的数据，这些数据包括警察在对家庭纠纷做出反应后完成专门规定的清单时的回答。结果表明，虽然女性在家庭纠纷中经常被捕，但逮捕结果仍存在显著差异，即男性嫌疑人比女性嫌疑人更有可能被捕。回归模型进一步表明了基于性别的差异和某些逮捕预测因素，这支持了基于性别的家庭暴力逮捕的理由。
