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Domestic violence unquestionably looms as one of the more serious and complex problems facing the law enforcement community today. Domestic-related violence has long been the leading cause of homicide for most communities.1 As a core social phenomena, it challenges the scope, the breadth and the role of modern law enforcement policy and practice. The police have not always responded to this challenge in the most appropriate fashion. Historically, domestic violence has been viewed as an essentially private, family matter not suitable for aggressive governmental intervention. In fact, American law once recognized husbands as titular heads of their households with a right to dispense corporal punishment to disobedient wives.2 Although most laws of that sort disappeared during the early nineteenth century,3 their residual effects continued to manifest themselves in the social norms and assumptions of modern society. Those assumptions are increasingly under attack. Society has expanded the role of government as a protector not only outside the home, but within it as well. Institutional transitions to new policies and procedures frequently lag behind changes in social attitude, however, and this has traditionally been true of police departments where domestic violence is concerned. Moreover, not every officer has personally accepted this change, and insensitivity to the victims of domestic violence has sometimes been the result.

Contemporary Police Practices in Domestic Violence Cases: Arresting the Abuser: Is It Enough?