Receiving ample evidence that many female victims of violence perpentrated by their intimate male partners face problems within the criminal justice system. It appears that needs of women victimized by intimate partners may not be given full consideration by police officers, and researchers have also found evidence of negatively affect of women assaulted by their intimate partners. Such findings have been cited or recorded by the criminal justice system since the late 1980's. Primary reasons for the unfair treatment are thought to be found in the attitudes and belief of the criminal justice system officials. Police officers, prosecutors, and judges have been described as holding victim-blaming attitudes, believing that women provoked abuse, and/or should be able to control their abuses on their own. Investigators into the probability of arrests in partner violence cases have compared the arrests in nonpartner violent incidents have resulted in conflicted findings. Some researchers found that police are less likely to make arrests in cases involving partner violence relative to violent assaults by others. A crime victims survey was then conducted that included questions, to gather additional information about the crime, victims experiences with different aspects of victims with crime-related injuries and losses. 1,570 crime respondants who admitted they or their family had been in a recent crime victim, and interviews were completed between the months of April and October 1995 with 1,312 crime victims. Analyses reported on a statistical table also reveaed that victims of assaults by nonpartners were less likely to report feeling satisfied with their experience with police officers. The significance of the study was to evaluate the ralative impact of victims reported within the criminal justice system. Participants in this study consisted of 284 women who indicated experiences of a physical or sexual assualt in response to a ...
