Toxic Love: Mandating Standards in Arkansas’s Domestic Violence Laws

Authors

Alia B. Reddell

Keywords

spousal abuse, domestic violence, common law

Abstract

This Comment addresses the current scheme of domestic violence statutes, highlighting the inadequate state of domestic violence remedies and the ineffective law enforcement guidelines currently in place; it argues that the Arkansas State Legislature is in need of reforming its domestic violence policies. This recommendation is three-fold and proposes that Arkansas should abandon its current discretionary regime and adopt: (1) mandatory arrest policies; (2) statutory post-arrest procedures; and (3) mandatory

Recommended Citation

Alia B. Reddell, Toxic Love: Mandating Standards in Arkansas’s Domestic Violence Laws, 77 Ark. L. Rev. (2024).
Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol77/iss1/5