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1. Define domestic violence. There are many definitions for the term domestic violence. Some include the following; violence and abuse by family members or intimate partners such as a spouse, former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, or date, violence that occurs within a family or an intimate relationship, including wife beating and child abuse, and finally incidents of inter-spousal physical or emotional abuse perpetrated by one of the spouses or parent figures upon the …

…domestic violence? The Minneapolis experiment was conducted to assess the effects of various police responses to domestic violence. The study came to three conclusions. First, police should probably employ arrest in most cases of minor domestic violence. Second, the experiment should be replicated to see whether or not the same findings come out. Finally, mandatory arrest laws should not be adopted. Within a matter of months of the experiment many states adopted mandatory arrest procedures.