Chinese police officers' attitudes toward domestic violence interventions: do training and knowledge of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law matter?. (9th August 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Chinese police officers' attitudes toward domestic violence interventions: do training and knowledge of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law matter?. (9th August 2021)
- Main Title:
- Chinese police officers' attitudes toward domestic violence interventions: do training and knowledge of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law matter?
- Authors:
- Lin, Kai
Sun, Ivan Y.
Wu, Yuning
Xue, Jia - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: In March 2016, China's Anti-Domestic Violence Law became effective. The main objective of this study is to empirically test the effects of training and knowledge on the recent anti-domestic violence legislation on Chinese police officers' attitudes toward law enforcement interventions into domestic violence. Performing Path Analysis on survey data collected from 623 police officers in Jiangsu, China, this study found that training and knowledge on the law, while mediating the positive effects of organisational support and previous experience of handling domestic violence on officers' proactive attitudes toward policing domestic violence, did not have a direct connection to pro-arrest attitudes. Organisational support is the strongest predictor of endorsement of domestic violence interventions as important police work and pro-arrest attitudes. Implications for criminal justice policies and practice are also discussed.
- Is Part Of:
- Policing and society. Volume 31:Number 7(2021)
- Journal:
- Policing and society
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Number 7(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 7 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0031-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 878
- Page End:
- 894
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08-09
- Subjects:
- Policing -- domestic violence -- China -- Anti-Domestic Violence Law
Police -- Periodicals
Crime prevention -- Periodicals
363.2 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gpas20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/10439463.2020.1797027 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1043-9463
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