Assessing Police Attitudes Toward Intervention in Gender Violence: the Role of Training, Perceived Severity, and Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

• Published in: Journal of family violence Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 299 - 311
• Main Authors: Serrano-Montilla, Celia, Garrido-Macías, Marta, Sáez-Díaz, Javier, Sáez, Gemma
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.02.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Attitudes; Clinical Psychology; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Decision making; Domestic violence; Educational programs; Gender-based violence; Intervention; Intimate partner violence; Law and Psychology; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mythology; Original Article; Police; Police training; Professional training; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Public opinion; Quality of Life Research; Recruitment; Severity; Snowball sampling; Tolerance; Training; Violence against women; Attitudes toward intervention; Police officers; Intimate partner violence against women; IPVAW myths, perceived severity

Purpose Even though evidence has broadly confirmed that public attitudes toward intervention shape the decision-making process when dealing with IPVAW events, rather less is known about what determines the police decision-making process. Research support that police attitudes toward intervention in...