Effectiveness of Mandatory Arrest Statutes in Intimate Partner Disputes
Annually in the United States there are about seven million people physically assaulted by an intimate partner. Mandatory arrest laws for domestic disputes was the nation’s response to the staggering statistic that women account for two out of three murder victims killed by an intimate partner. Mandatory arrest is a form of warrantless arrest that requires the officer to arrest an individual whenever there has been a call for police assistance related to a domestic dispute. I