Serrano-Montilla Celia, Lozano Luis M, Alonso-Ferres María, Valor-Segura Inmaculada, Padilla Jose-Luis
Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center, Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, 16741University of Granada, Spain.
Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center Department of Social Psychology, 16741University of Granada, Spain.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2023 Jan;24(1):245-260. doi: 10.1177/15248380211029398. Epub 2021 Jul 14.
Police officers are society's first interveners in intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and are essential for victim safety. Despite IPVAW laws, police attitudes influence their real actions during IPVAW intervention. However, the fuzzy conceptualization of the construct deters the pursuit of conclusive evidence. This systematic review sought to identify the components of police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW and their determinants. A search was conducted through several databases (e.g., Web of Science). Papers were included if they (a) provided original empirical findings or were review studies, (b) were published between 1990 and 2019, (c) were written in Spanish or English, (d) alluded to police officers, and (e) focused on police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW or their determinants. Fifty-seven papers were included. The studied components of police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW extracted from the literature were tolerance of IPVAW, minimal police involvement, unsupportive and supportive attitudes toward the legal system and legislation against IPVAW, understanding of the complex nature of abuse, and IPVAW intervention as an important police task. Moreover, the central role of individual and situational determinants in police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW was confirmed, whereas organizational and societal determinants were studied scarcely. This review proposes a framework upon which to build operational definition of police attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW and includes remarks on police backgrounds and the situational characteristics of IPVAW events that are essential in shaping police procedures for managing them. Empirical evidence should be transferred to police training and standard operating procedures.
警察是社会应对针对妇女的亲密伴侣暴力行为（IPVAW）的首批干预者，对受害者的安全至关重要。尽管有针对IPVAW的法律，但警察的态度会影响他们在IPVAW干预过程中的实际行动。然而，这一概念的模糊界定阻碍了确凿证据的获取。本系统综述旨在确定警察对IPVAW干预态度的构成要素及其决定因素。通过多个数据库（如科学网）进行了检索。如果论文（a）提供了原始实证研究结果或为综述研究，（b）发表于1990年至2019年之间，（c）用西班牙语或英语撰写，（d）提及警察，且（e）关注警察对IPVAW干预的态度或其决定因素，则纳入研究。共纳入57篇论文。从文献中提取的警察对IPVAW干预态度的研究构成要素包括对IPVAW的容忍度、警察的极少参与、对反对IPVAW的法律制度和立法的不支持与支持态度（原文此处有误，应是支持与不支持态度）、对虐待复杂性质的理解以及将IPVAW干预视为一项重要的警察任务。此外，证实了个人和情境决定因素在警察对IPVAW干预态度中的核心作用，而对组织和社会决定因素的研究较少。本综述提出了一个框架，在此基础上构建警察对IPVAW干预态度的操作定义，并包括对警察背景以及IPVAW事件情境特征的评论，这些对于塑造警察处理此类事件的程序至关重要。实证证据应转化为警察培训和标准操作程序。
