Making it through the Criminal Justice System: Attrition and Domestic Violence
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This article explores the process of attrition, where domestic violence cases fail to make it through the criminal justice system and do not result in criminal conviction. The article draws on the hitherto most detailed study of such attrition in the UK.1 The research, carried out across the Northumbria Police Force area, explored the quantitative attrition of domestic violence cases, from reporting to the police to final court outcome, contextualising this via the experiences of individuals (mainly women) victimised by
domestic violence as well as the perspectives and practices of the police, prosecutors, the
courts and non-criminal justice agencies.
domestic violence as well as the perspectives and practices of the police, prosecutors, the
courts and non-criminal justice agencies.
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