Making The Grade: Judicial Behavior In Civil Protection Order Hearings For Intimate Partner Violence

Keywords

interactional justice; judges; protection orders; Victims; violence

Abstract

In the USA, civil protection orders, commonly known as restraining orders, have been underutilized as a means of protecting victims of intimate partner violence. It has been proposed that part of the reason for this underutilization is victim apprehension over treatment by the courts. To improve the experience of accessing legal relief, Court Watch programs have been implemented in various jurisdictions across the country. Court Watch programs monitor judicial behavior on several dimensions, including whether interactions with victims are informational, explanatory, participatory, and respectful. Using secondary data obtained from a Florida Court Watch program, this study examines judicial behavior in 500 civil protection order hearings for intimate partner violence. Applying quantitative and qualitative analytic strategies, we examine Court Watch perceptions of judicial behavior, the association between Court Watch perceptions of judicial behavior and civil protection order outcomes, and factors that might account for judicial behavior.

Publication Date

9-1-2016

Publication Title

International Review of Victimology

Volume

22

Issue

3

Number of Pages

269-287

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758016630890

Socpus ID

84981717847 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84981717847

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