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Early death recorded in victims following mandatory arrest in domestic violence call-outs

March 5, 2014 by

New research from a major 'randomised' arrest experiment 23 years ago finds that domestic violence victims whose partners were arrested on misdemeanor charges - mostly without causing injury - were 64% more likely to have died early, compared to victims whose partners were warned but not removed by police.

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