Summary

The focus of this scoping review was to understand the overall state of research activity related to pro-arrest, pro-charge, and pro-prosecution policies in Canada. The review identified 295 articles, academic (47.5%) and gray literature (52.5%) published between 1983 and 2018 that reported on these policies as a response to domestic violence in Canada.

Findings

The findings acknowledged growing concerns over the ineffectiveness of these policies as a response to domestic violence. In fact, over half of the articles (57.6%) either failed to support these policies or recommended significant revisions; only a small number of articles (1.0%) favored these policies in their current form. Themes related to the effectiveness of these policies included criminalization and public awareness, survivor satisfaction, standardized police response, removal of burden from survivor to charge, and better than nothing. Themes related to the ineffectiveness included disconnect between policy and practice, revictimizes survivors, one-size fits all approach, have not adequately reduced domestic violence in Canada, lack of understanding training and education for all, failure to address structural and systemic factors, lack of trust in the criminal justice system, and success has been difficult to measure.

Applications

The deconstruction of these policies in this review points to the need for future research to address identified gaps in the literature and to explore alternatives that serve their intended emancipatory effect.

中文翻译：

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审查针对家庭暴力的支持逮捕，起诉和起诉政策

概要

范围界定审查的重点是了解加拿大与赞成逮捕，赞成和起诉的政策有关的研究活动的总体状况。该审查确定了295篇文章，其中1983年至2018年发表的学术论文（47.5％）和灰色文献（52.5％）报告了这些政策，以回应加拿大的家庭暴力问题。

发现

调查结果承认，人们越来越担心这些政策对于应对家庭暴力的有效性。实际上，超过一半的文章（57.6％）要么不支持这些政策，要么建议进行重大修订；只有少数文章（1.0％）以当前形式赞成这些政策。与这些政策的有效性相关的主题包括定罪和提高公众意识，幸存者的满意度，标准化的警察对策，减轻幸存者负担的负担，总比没有好。与无效性相关的主题包括：政策与实践之间的脱节，幸存者的复仇，各种方法的统一，加拿大的家庭暴力没有得到充分减少，对所有人的培训和教育缺乏了解，未能解决结构性和系统性因素，

应用领域

在这篇评论中对这些政策的解构表明，有必要进行进一步的研究，以解决文献中已发现的空白，并探索能够发挥预期解放作用的替代方法。