In the United States, the judicial system response to violence between intimate partners, or intimate partner violence (IPV), typically mandates that adjudicated perpetrators complete a batterer intervention program (BIP). The social science data has found that these programs, on the whole, are ...
Children of all religious and ethnic backgrounds are victims, people – the vast majority of which are men – of all religious and ethnic backgrounds are perpetrators. Equally, we know that all forms of sexual and domestic violence and abuse are under-reported; and that support for victims and...
Domestic violence is a serious, widespread public, social and health problem that affects the lives of many women, children and men. There is also evidence to
Cannon, C., Hamel, J., Buttell, F., and Ferreira, R. J., (2016). A survey of domestic violence perpetrator programs in the United States and Canada: findings and implications for policy and intervention. Partner Abuse 7, 226-276. doi: 10. 1891/1946-6560.7.3.226...
A record 88,619 domestic violence complaints were received by police in 2023, including about 30 percent in which men said they were the victims, National Police Agency statistics showed on March 28.
Domestic violence is always anchored in a social context in which the aspirations of men and women are dealt with unequally. The majority of perpetrators of domestic violence are men. Perpetrators are often young, troubled, unemployed, and of low self-esteem; they have often experienced abuse ...
Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence: Practitioners' Perceptions and Experiences of Working with Adult Victims and Perpetrators in the UK a UK鈥恇ased qualitative research study exploring the views and experiences of practitioners working with adult victims and perpetrators of domestic violen...
The use of assessments to characterize domestic violence perpetrators continues to develop with an emphasis on increasing the effectiveness of domestic violence interventions. The present study examines and compares Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-2 responses from 41 English-speaking and ...
Evaluating Probation Based Offender Programmes for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Pro‐Feminist Approach Developments in our understanding of domestic violence and its criminalisation have led some probation areas in the UK to adopt pro–feminist offender groupwork programmes as a means of rehabilitati...
Retired Marriage & Family Therapist Author and speaker on domestic violence and attachment theory Internationally recognized expert on family violence Expert witness in criminal and civil trials Distinquished Clinical Member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists ...