The National Institute of Justice (NJS) is the research, development and evaluation agency of the Department of Justice and is committed to improve knowledge and understanding of the issues related to crime and justice through applicability of science (Balaba, 2016). Due to political pressure to take domestic violence seriously, majority of states and police departments have implemented proarrest policies, it is still a question whether it is a desirable action being taken by the police and, the increased number of arrests in the cases of domestic violence