Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Abstract
Until fairly recently, prosecutors' offices around the country ignored domestic violence cases, failing to press charges in the vast majority of situations and dropping charges prior to conviction in many others. In the 1980s and 1990s, however, the battered women's movement made significant efforts to improve the criminal justice system's response. One way that this effort has met with substantial success is that many prosecutors' offices now have adopted aggressive "no-drop" policies for domestic violence cases. In these jurisdictions, cases proceed regardless of the victim's preferences about prosecution, even if she recants her original story and testifies for the defense.
Publication Citation
11 AM. J. GENDER, SOC. POLC’Y & LAW 465-498 (2003)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Epstein, Deborah; Bell, Margret E.; and Goodman, Lisa A., "Transforming Aggressive Prosecution Policies: Prioritizing Victims’ Long-Term Safety in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases" (2003). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1514.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1514