Arresting Evidence: Domestic Violence and Repeat Victimisation. Jalna

The Policing and Reducing Crime Unit (PRC) was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of the Police Research Group (PRG) and the Research and Statistics Directorate. PRC Unit is now part of the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office. The PRC Unit carries out and commissions research in the social and management sciences on policing and crime reduction, broadening out the role that PRG played. The PRC has now combined PRG's two main series into the Police Research Series, continuing PRG's earlier work. This will present research material on crime prevention and detection as well as police management and organisation issues. Research commissioned by PRG will appear as a PRC publication. Throughout the text there may be references to PRG and these now need to be understood as relating to the PRC Unit. ISBN 1-84082-241-4 Copies of this publication can be made available in formats accessible to the visually impaired on request. Forewor d This project is part of a continuing programme of research and development on repeat victimisation. The scope for reducing crime by focusing on victims is now well established. Previous research has demonstrated how adopting a graded response can make a real impact on repeat property crime. This project develops the approach by applying the graded response to domestic violence, where repeat offending is a common occurrence. An extended briefing note was published in April 1998 describing the project and setting out the findings from the first six months. This report presents an evaluation of the first full year, and discusses the operational issues involved in implementing and monitoring such initiatives. Its account of the lessons to be learned from the Killingbeck experience should help the new crime and disorder partnerships in developing their local strategies