Domestic Dispute
| Domestic Dispute | My review and analysis of this case pursuant to developing new policies for the police department. | | Virgil Domingo | 10/31/2012 |
Identify, define, examine, and discuss the domestic violence laws in your state applicable to this situation between Sarah and her boyfriend. Compare and contrast property crimes and personal crimes and how domestic violence relates to both. Evaluate victim's rights as they related to domestic violence and social responsibility in your state. Analyze the criminal behavior of domestic violence and describe how criminal behavior is evaluated towards the formation of new policy for social order in the criminal justice system. Compare and contrast the history and the future of domestic violence law. |
Domestic violence is a crime. Any person who hits, chokes, kicks, threatens, harasses, or interferes with the personal liberty of another family or household member has broken Illinois Domestic Violence law. Under Illinois law family or household members are defined as; family members related by blood, people who are married or used to be married, people who share or used to share a home, apartment, or other common dwelling, people who have or allegedly have a child in common or blood relationship through a child in common, people who are dating or engaged or used to date: including same sex couples, and people with disabilities and their personal assistants. Typically, in a case involving a charge of Domestic Battery / Violence, the police will arrest the accused and take them to the police station lockup. After posting a bond, the accused is released but is not allowed to return to the home for at least 72 hours. Further, an order of protection is issued by the Criminal Court and a court date is assigned for the case. You can be sentenced to jail. A conviction becomes a permanent public record and can only be cleared by a Governor's pardon. Employers, credit agencies and landlords can view your
Identify, define, examine, and discuss the domestic violence laws in your state applicable to this situation between Sarah and her boyfriend. Compare and contrast property crimes and personal crimes and how domestic violence relates to both. Evaluate victim's rights as they related to domestic violence and social responsibility in your state. Analyze the criminal behavior of domestic violence and describe how criminal behavior is evaluated towards the formation of new policy for social order in the criminal justice system. Compare and contrast the history and the future of domestic violence law. |
Domestic violence is a crime. Any person who hits, chokes, kicks, threatens, harasses, or interferes with the personal liberty of another family or household member has broken Illinois Domestic Violence law. Under Illinois law family or household members are defined as; family members related by blood, people who are married or used to be married, people who share or used to share a home, apartment, or other common dwelling, people who have or allegedly have a child in common or blood relationship through a child in common, people who are dating or engaged or used to date: including same sex couples, and people with disabilities and their personal assistants. Typically, in a case involving a charge of Domestic Battery / Violence, the police will arrest the accused and take them to the police station lockup. After posting a bond, the accused is released but is not allowed to return to the home for at least 72 hours. Further, an order of protection is issued by the Criminal Court and a court date is assigned for the case. You can be sentenced to jail. A conviction becomes a permanent public record and can only be cleared by a Governor's pardon. Employers, credit agencies and landlords can view your
References: * http://www.legaldefenderspc.com/practice/domestic_battery_violence.html * http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/women/idva.html * http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2100&ChapterID=59 * http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=072000050HTit.+III+Pt.+C&ActID=1876&ChapterID=53&SeqStart=34900000&SeqEnd=68100000 * http://www.sagepub.com/lippmanstudy/state/il/Ch13_Illinois.pdf * http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/domesticviolence/domesticviolencec.cfm * http://crime.about.com/od/victims/qt/victims_il.htm * https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/crimdom.pdf * http://workforce.socialworkers.org/studies/Criminal%20Justice%20in%20the%20United%20States.pdf * http://www.ilcadv.org/dv_law_in_il/idva_booklet_1-2009.pdf