Talk:Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment

Why is this worthy of an article? The New Zealand Police have a policy (particularly in cities such as Hamilton or Waitakere) of arresting the male involved in any 'domestic violence' incident (regardless of whether violence has actually occurred, regardless of who is damaged) and locking him up for twenty-four hours. As far as I am aware, this approach has not decreased the incidence of domestic violence in New Zealand, which has one of the highest rates in the 'developed' world. Perhaps it might even contribute to its increase? Duh. 222.153.1.17 02:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The Minneapolis study influenced the New Zealand pro-arrest policy (and other countries), in addition to influences on policy in the U.S. Correct approach or not, the tremendous influence of the study on policy is highly notable, as is the debate and controversy regarding the study and pro-arrest policies. --Aude (talk) 16:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to have a further reading section that's almost as long as the rest of the article? Modest Genius talk 02:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The "further reading" section is really a list of sources that need to be converted into inline cites. The article was created a few days ago, which is not enough time to get that done. Had I known the article was going to be on the Main Page, I would have temporarily moved the list to a user page. --Aude (talk) 16:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

The Minneapolis experiment and its replications warrant a prominent place in the development of social policy toward intimate partner violence and warrant extensive coverage (though perhaps fewer footnotes) in Wikipedia.

This current article is mostly accurate about the Minneapolis experiment but less so about the replications. Among other things, the article attributes to Maxwell, et al. 2001 findings that were reported by Sherman, 1992 and uses Elliot, 1989 as a primary source when it is a review of other research.

The findings from Maxwell, et al are substantively different from those reported by Sherman, 1992.

Sherman reports his expert but qualitative summary of findings from Minneapolis and the six replications and concludes that the effects of arrest are mixed depending on offender characteristics.

Maxwell, et al. create common data for some 4,000 individual cases of male on female violence from the five replications and use statistical tests that find consistent support for a crime reduction effect for the use of arrest. They recommend the consistent use of arrest but note that arrest alone is not effective against a small proportion of high rate offenders.

Joelhenrygarner (talk) 04:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Photo of Lawrence W. Sherman?
Though not essential IMO, it would be nice to include a photo of Lawrence W. Sherman in this article. — Rich wales 05:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Short on quantitative detail
On a quick reading this article seems very short of quantitative detail. "Arrest was found to be the most effective police response. The study found that the offenders assigned to be arrested had lower rates of re-offending than offenders assigned to counseling or temporarily sent away." The same wording could be used for an improvement of 1% or 90%. The same lack of detail is found elsewhere in the article. If the detail is buried there and I've missed it, it should be summarised in the introduction. Pol098 (talk) 22:04, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

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