TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Black, Dan A.
AU  - Grogger, Jeffrey
AU  - Kirchmaier, Tom
AU  - Sanders, Koen
        TI  - Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15885
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15885
        AB  - Domestic abuse is a pervasive global problem. Here we analyze two approaches to reducing violent DA recidivism. One involves charging the perpetrator with a crime; the other provides protective services to the victim on the basis of a formal risk assessment carried out by the police. We use detailed administrative data to estimate the average effect of treatment on the treated using inverse propensity-score weighting (IPW). We then make use of causal forests to study heterogeneity in the estimated treatment effects. We find that pressing charges substantially reduces the likelihood of violent recidivism. The analysis also reveals substantial heterogeneity in the effect of pressing charges. In contrast, the risk-assessment process has no discernible effect.
        KW  - domestic abuse
KW  - charges
KW  - risk assessment
KW  - propensity score weighting
        ER  -