Because reporting rates to police and other authorities for domestic violence and sexual assault are dramatically lower than prevalence and incidence rates, I think it's important to empirically investigate a change in police reporting rates like the one mentioned below by Sok Sam Oeun as women may be utilizing criminal justice services less if they feel their own decision-making authority may be undermined by a protocol ostensibly designed to help them.
________________________ Heather Karjane HHD Center for Violence & Injury Prevention Education Development Center, Inc. On 01/10/2002 10:58 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I want to recommend an option to end violent behaviour of husbands. From >1989 to 1993, I was Director of Khmer Police Training School of UNBRO in >Site 2 Camp (a refugee camp in Thailand). I trained 2000 Khmer police >officers there. At that time we modified a procedure of police work >relating to domestic violence. When a woman comes to police station or >police officer sees a violence, police officers can stop the fighting. If >the victim has been injured police can arrest the husband. The victim can >file criminal charges against her husband or police also can charge him if >they have strong evidence or the injury is serious. However, the woman can >withdraw the charge at anytime but police can proceed the case if they are >sure that they will win the case without the testimony of the wife. In >most cases, the woman always come to police station the next morning and >asks the police chief to release her husband. If the case is the first >time, most police chiefs agree to release him but ask him to make a vow >or agreement not to beat his wife anymore and explain him that his act is >a crime. ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
