Domestic Violence: Research and Implications for Batterer Programmes in Europe |
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Authors: | Nicola Graham-Kevan |
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Institution: | (1) University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK |
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Abstract: | The European Union is in the early stages of developing policy and practice guidelines for dealing with domestic violence
offenders. There is a real danger, however, that that policy and practice is going to be shaped by political lobbyists rather
than academic literature and evidence-based practice. Feminist advocates control the curriculum of domestic violence perpetrator
programmes in the US and more recently in the UK and proscribe treatments that do not conform to their conceptualisation of
domestic violence. Feminist advocates conceptualise domestic violence as unilateral male-to-female violence enacted to control
and dominate women, supported by the patriarchal beliefs and systems of the wider society. Academic support for this theory
is lacking, however, and scientifically sound evaluations find that programmes based on this philosophy have little or no
effect on recidivism. Empirical literature suggests that domestic violence is not a unitary phenomenon and that perpetrators
are a heterogeneous group whose treatment should match their crimingenic needs and risk. |
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Keywords: | Domestic violence Partner violence Treatment Duluth Europe Feminism Typologies |
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