TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge
AU  - Matute, Marta Martínez
        TI  - Specialized Courts and the Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Spain
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14936
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14936
        AB  - This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialized intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting and incidence of these crimes. To achieve this goal, we exploit the sequential roll-out of specialized IPV courts throughout Spain by applying a difference-in-differences strategy over a sample of treatment and matched control districts. We find that the opening of a specialized IPV court decreases time to disposition of IPV cases by 61% and increases the reporting of IPV in the judicial district by approximately 22%. However, we do not see any effect of the courts on the incidence of IPV homicides, neither on the reported number of aggravated IPV offenses, for which misreporting is arguably smaller. The latter results suggest that despite the positive effects on the reporting of less severe IPV offenses, the creation of these courts failed to reduce the incidence of the most severe IPV offenses within the time period studied.
        KW  - specialized intimate-partner violence courts
KW  - reporting of intimate partner violence
KW  - intimate partner violence
        ER  -