ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with violence between husbands and wives or other conjugal cohabitants. It focuses on the pervasiveness of this problem and at the types of statutory provisions that govern these behaviors. The chapter also examines how academicians account for intimate partner violence (IPV). It explores how patriarchy influences violence against women and explains how the cycle of violence builds. The chapter summarizes the Minneapolis Experiment along with the reactions to the IPV. It also explains the idea of coordinating system responses and its impact. Many police agencies adhered to a strategy of minimal intervention in IPV disturbances. Calls for greater police intervention into domestic violence replaced family privacy issues. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. The IPV problem has dropped into the laps of law enforcement personnel, and they have assumed responsibility as first responders.
