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- Title
Policing 'Domestic Disturbances' in Small Towns and Rural Communities: Implications for Officer and Victim Safety.
- Authors
Huey, Laura; Ricciardelli, Rose
- Abstract
Drawing on Canadian police data on homicide involving domestic dispute calls from 1960 to the present ( n = 20), as well as on in-depth interviews with police officers ( n = 33) working in rural and remote communities, the authors reexamine the argument that police attendance at domestic disturbance calls can pose a special threat to officer safety. Although some scholarship suggests that purported risks have been overstated, the authors argue that location may be a critical factor in reducing or heightening not only risks to officers, but also to victims. Although intended as an exploratory work, situated within the context of cultural support for domestic violence in rural communities, the authors raise both interesting policy implications, as well as potential avenues for future research.
- Subjects
CANADA; DOMESTIC violence; CRIMES against police; RURAL police; CITIES &; towns; VICTIMS of domestic violence; RISK of violence
- Publication
Canadian Review of Sociology, 2017, Vol 54, Issue 2, p198
- ISSN
1755-6171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cars.12145