Legal consequences of dating violence: A critical review and directions for improved behavioral contingencies
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- 作者：Tara L. Cornelius ; Ryan C. Shorey ; Allison Kunde
- 关键词：Dating ; Partner abuse ; Legal processes
- 刊名：Aggression and Violent Behavior
- 出版年：2009
- 出版时间：May-June 2009
- 年：2009
- 卷：14
- 期：3
- 页码：194-204
- 全文大小：285 K
文摘
As researchers and clinicians seek to better understand, prevent, and address violence in dating relationships among adolescents and young adults, there is also a need to better explore the possible legal consequences for perpetrators of aggression. The purpose of this paper is to review legal involvement in violent intimate relationships, with a specific focus on dating relationships, as these sanctions represent possible punishing consequences for violent perpetration. Punishing consequences of aggression, including legal interventions, could serve to lessen or eliminate violence in the current relationship and also circumvent possible aggression in future relationships. Implications of this review for clinicians, law enforcement, judiciary officials, and prevention programmers addressing dating violence are provided, along with directions for future research.