The Rehabilitation of Partner-Violent Men

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ISBN: 9780470997727 | 0470997729
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Copyright: 3/7/2011

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Drawing on an extensive body of literature, The Rehabilitation of Partner-Violent Men presents an historical account of the policy changes that have led to rehabilitation programmes for male perpetrators of intimate partner violence within the criminal justice system. Presents a review of the current state of male partner-violence theory and related intervention programmes in the UK Draws on both national and international literature within the field Provides an overview of the theoretical foundation behind current approaches to the rehabilitation of partner-violent men Offers an appraisal of the effectiveness of current practicesÂ and directions for future advances in intervention and evaluation science

About the Author	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Nature of Domestic' or 'Intimate Partner' Violence	p. 2
Official definitions	p. 3
Academic definitions and debates	p. 4
Are men the only perpetrators?	p. 7
A typology of domestic violence	p. 10
The Extent of Intimate Partner Violence	p. 11
International and national surveys	p. 12
British surveys	p. 13
Who Are 'Those Guys?'	p. 15
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence: The Reason to Intervene	p. 17
Rehabilitation and Intimate Partner Violence	p. 19
Conclusion	p. 20
Changes to the Criminal Justice Response to Partner Violence	p. 21
Attrition in the Prosecution of Partner Violence Cases	p. 22
Policing partner violence	p. 22
Prosecuting partner violence	p. 25
Factors influencing victim support of prosecution	p. 27
Summary	p. 29
A Changing National Policy Context	p. 30
Partner Violence within the Criminal Law	p. 30
Changes to criminal law	p. 34
Changes to the policing of partner violence	p. 36
Changes to Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) policy	p. 37
Changes to sentencing guidelines	p. 39
Changes to the Court System	p. 42
Specialist domestic violence courts (SDVCs)	p. 42
Summary	p. 46
So Have These Changes Improved the Response to Partner Violence in the UK?	p. 46
The impact on reporting incidents of partner violence	p. 46
The impact on policing	p. 47
The effects of CPS policy and specialist domestic violence courts	p. 49
The Overall Impact on Attrition	p. 51
Conclusion	p. 51
Theories of Intimate Partner Violence	p. 53
Socio-Cultural Theories	p. 54
Gender roles and inequality	p. 54
Power and control	p. 55
Patriarchy	p. 57
Criticisms of Socio-Cultural Theories	p. 57
Social Learning Theory	p. 58
Family Systems Theory	p. 61
Attachment Theory	p. 62
Personality Disorder and IPV	p. 64
Anger and Hostility Models of IPV	p. 66
Alcohol and Drug Models of IPV	p. 67
Summary of single factor theories of IPV	p. 69
Nested Ecological Theory	p. 69
Summary and Conclusions	p. 71
The Development of Group-Based Programmes for Male Domestic Violence Perpetrators	p. 73
Changing Perspectives on the Causes of IPV and Approaches to Intervention	p. 74
The Inception of Men's Programmes	p. 75
'Nothing Works'	p. 76
The Expansion of Men's Programmes	p. 78
The Duluth model: a change of emphasis	p. 79
Evidence that Something Works	p. 83
British Developments in the Provision of Men's Programmes	p. 86
'What Works?' and the Move Towards Accredited Programmes	p. 87
Accreditation criteria	p. 91
The 'What Works' Movement and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes	p. 93
Conclusion	p. 95
Current Practice: The Risk Assessment and Management Context	p. 97
The Multi-Agency Risk Management Context: MAPPAs and MARACs	p. 97
Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA)	p. 97
Multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs)	p. 99
The intersection of MAPPA and MARAC	p. 99
Risk and Risk Assessment	p. 100
The nature of IPV risk	p. 100
Risk factors for non-lethal IPV	p. 101
Risk factors for lethal IPV	p. 101
Current Approaches to IPV Risk Assessment	p. 103
Actuarial IPV risk assessments	p. 104
Alternative approaches	p. 106
Post-treatment risk appraisal	p. 111
Current Practice: Programmes for Partner-Violent Men	p. 113
Overview of IDAP	p. 117
Programme eligibility criteria	p. 118
Programme content	p. 118
Additional sessions	p. 119
Overview of CDVP and the Moderate Intensity Healthy Relationships Programme	p. 119
Programme eligibility criteria	p. 120
Programme content	p. 120
Additional sessions	p. 122
Overview of the High Intensity Healthy Relationship Programme	p. 122
Critique of the Programme Theories	p. 123
How Do the Programmes Differ?	p. 125
The Empirical Validity of Treatment Targets	p. 125
Cognition: Denial, minimization, victim blaming and cognitive distortions	p. 125
Perspective taking and empathy	p. 128
Parenting	p. 132
International Practice	p. 134
North America	p. 134
Canada	p. 134
European practice	p. 135
Global practice	p. 135
Summary and Conclusions	p. 138
The Effectiveness of Programmes: Issues in Programme Evaluation	p. 139
Why Evaluate?	p. 139
Which Evaluation Questions should be Asked?	p. 141
What should be Evaluated?	p. 142
What Research Design should be Used?	p. 143
Experimental design	p. 143
Quasi-experimental designs	p. 146
Propensity scores	p. 148
Alternative designs	p. 149
What Methods should be Used?	p. 150
Domestic violence reconviction	p. 151
Domestic violence reoffending	p. 151
Domestic violence recidivism	p. 152
What is Good Practice in IPV Programme Evaluation?	p. 154
The Effectiveness of IPV Programmes: International and National Evidence	p. 157
International Evaluation Studies	p. 158
Review overview	p. 158
Meta-analytic studies of programme effectiveness	p. 160
Conclusions from meta-analyses	p. 164
British Studies	p. 165
CHANGE and LDVPP	p. 165
The domestic abuse intervention project (DAIP)	p. 167
The Cheshire domestic violence prevention programme (CDVPP)	p. 170
The West Midlands Probation domestic violence perpetrator programme (WMDVPP)	p. 171
The integrated domestic abuse programme (IDAP)	p. 174
Emergent Themes from the British Evaluation Evidence	p. 177
Summary	p. 177
Evaluation Issues: What Else should We be Considering?	p. 179
The Comprehensive Evaluation Approach	p. 180
Needs Assessment: What is Domestic Violence and Who are the Perpetrators?	p. 180
Assessing Programme Theory	p. 182
Validating programme theory: Do programmes target criminogenic need?	p. 184
Implicit assumptions of programme theory: Do all members of the target population have the same needs?	p. 187
Motivation to change: selection criteria or treatment target?	p. 189
Assessing Programme Process: Is the Intended Treatment Delivered?	p. 191
Programme integrity	p. 192
Therapeutic environment	p. 193
Group variables	p. 194
Leader variables	p. 195
Programme Outcome	p. 196
Programme Efficiency	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 199
Conclusions and Future Directions	p. 201
The Future Understanding of IPV: A Move towards an Evidence-Based Definition	p. 201
The Future of Programme Development: What are the Alternatives?	p. 204
The Future of Evaluation Research	p. 208
Does the Future Lie in Tertiary Interventions?	p. 210
References	p. 213
Index	p. 243
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