Birnbaum, R., Bala, N., & Jaffe, P. (2014). Establishing Canada's first integrated domestic violence court: exploring process, outcomes, and lesson learned. Canadian Journal of Family Law, 29(1), 117-171. This article discusses the process of the integrated domestic violence courts. The author talks about a study on the experience of the people who become part of this process. It talks about how domestic violence courts are trying their best to repair the damage of the victims. A lot of the time children become the most important people who are most likely to get affected. Through domestic violence courts, they can provide the right care to the children. Along with all of this, they are offering intervention programs to the abuses …show more content…
The main objective of this article to see is domestic violence courts are meeting their goal to improve quality and process of the criminal justice response. An interview was done with justice stakeholders and the accused to know the impact of the courts. The two main principles of domestic violence courts are to provide early intervention to low risk and offenders and right prosecution for the serious offenders. By interviewing the accused the research found out that most were satisfied with what type of treatment they were offered by the court. There were some comments by the accused that domestic violence courts are biased in favor towards the victims. Results from the interviewing the justice members and the community stakeholder showed positive responses. Several showed a concern with the process being lengthy, not offering good enough treatments for the mental health, no help with financial issues and lack of communication between criminal and domestic violence courts which can affect the decision and be a risk to a victim. One positive outcome that has been proven by domestic violence courts is having a peace bond. There is a decrease in the number of trials showing that accused are willing to take advantage of the treatments they are being offered