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Under pressure: victim withdrawal and police officer workload

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  • Kirchmaier, Tom
  • Oparina, Ekaterina

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This paper addresses the relationship between a police officer's workload and the likelihood of statement withdrawal of domestic abuse victims. We focus our analysis on high-risk cases reported to Greater Manchester Police from January 2014 to March 2019. Using this unique dataset, combined with institutional knowledge, we show that adding 10 more cases to a police officer's monthly workload is associated with an increase of the probability of statement withdrawal of 3 percentage points, or 17% of the average withdrawal rate in our sample. The increased workload is likely to be the outcome of a substantial reduction in the police budget, implying that this paper provides additional indirect evidence of the secondary costs of austerity policies.

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  • Kirchmaier, Tom & Oparina, Ekaterina, 2024. "Under pressure: victim withdrawal and police officer workload," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 126826, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:126826
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    workload; productivity; police; austerity;
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    JEL classification:

    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • H39 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Other
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War

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