Broad calls to narrow the role of police in American society have begun to include arguments to reduce the carceral responding to intimate partner violence (IPV) and add a stronger social response. The field’s improved understanding of lethality risk assessment; better classification of offender risk by past involvement with general violence or family only violence; and positive findings from trials of relationship strengthening interventions as couples counseling, restorative justice practices, and mediation, call for exploring relationship-strengthening approaches to complement more carceral approaches. Yet, a half century of adherence to traditional IPV service approaches that have steered away from relationship strengthening has generated an array of procedures and policies that need to change before the IPV services field can broaden and become more responsive. These changes are likely to be more fitting across racial and cultural groups and more suited for those seeking to improve relationship safety. This paper reviews these trends and considers legislative remedies that would facilitate the emergence of additional safe, empowering, relationship-responsive, trauma sensitive additions to IPV services.

缩小警察在美国社会中的作用的广泛呼吁已经开始包括减少监狱对亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 的反应并增加更强有力的社会反应的论点。该领域提高了对杀伤力风险评估的理解；通过过去参与一般暴力或仅家庭暴力更好地分类罪犯风险；作为夫妻咨询、恢复性司法实践和调解的关系加强干预试验的积极结果要求探索加强关系的方法来补充更多的监禁方法。然而，半个世纪以来，对传统 IPV 服务方法的坚持已经产生了一系列需要改变的程序和政策，这些程序和政策需要在 IPV 服务领域能够扩大并变得更加敏感之前进行改变。这些变化可能更适合种族和文化群体，更适合那些寻求改善关系安全的人。本文回顾了这些趋势，并考虑了有助于在 IPV 服务中出现更多安全、授权、关系响应、创伤敏感的附加内容的立法补救措施。