Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The problem of violence within police families has been increasingly recognized as an important socio-legal issue, but there is a lack of empirical data on what has commonly been referred to as officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV). There are no comprehensive statistics available on OIDV and no government entity collects data on the criminal conviction of police officers for crimes associated with domestic and/or family violence. Prior self-report officer surveys are limited by the tendency to conceal instances of family violence and the interests of officers to maintain a "code of silence" to protect their careers. The purpose of the current study is to provide empirical data on OIDV cases. The study identifies and describes cases in which police were arrested for criminal offenses associated with an incident of family and/or domestic violence through a content analysis of published newspaper articles. Data on these cases is presented in terms of the arrested officer, employing agency, victim, charged offense(s), and criminal case dispositions. The paper includes a discussion regarding OIDV police crime and policy implications.
Copyright Statement
Post-print
Publisher's Statement
This project was supported by Award No. 2011-IJ-CX-0024, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.
Repository Citation
Stinson, Philip M. and Liederbach, John, "Fox in the Henhouse: A Study of Police Officers Arrested for Crimes Associated with Domestic and/or Family Violence" (2013). Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 6.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/crim_just_pub/6
Publication Date
2013
Publication Title
Criminal Justice Policy Review
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403412453837
Start Page No.
601
End Page No.
625
Biographical Sketches
Stinson.6.OIDV.Fox.in.the.Henhouse.Title.Page.doc (22 kB)
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