Understanding and Informing Policy Implementation

Shannon Frattaroli and Stephen P. Teret
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Stephen P. Teret: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Evaluation Review, 2006, vol. 30, issue 3, 347-360

Abstract: The Maryland Gun Violence Act, enacted into law in 1996, explicitly authorized courts to order batterers to surrender their firearms through civil protective orders. It also vested law enforcement with the explicit authority to remove guns when responding to a domestic violence complaint. In order to assess how these laws were implemented, we designed a case study and collected data from in-depth, key informant interviews, court observations, and relevant documents. We present findings from this study and recommend how to increase the likelihood that policies designed to separate batterers and guns are implemented in a way that will result in greater protections for victims of domestic violence.

Keywords: policy implementation; firearms; domestic violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X06287684

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