Assessing the Efficacy of Batterer Intervention Programs in Context
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This paper was prepared to facilitate an informed group discussion about the efficacy of batter intervention programs (BIPs). As it would become obvious from the structure of the paper, I am of the opinion that BIPs should be viewed as part of a broader systemic response designed to curb and eliminate men’s use of violence against their female partners. With this in mind, I review data from studies on the effectiveness of court orders of protection for abuse victims, pro-arrest policies, "no-drop" prosecution policies, educational programs for men who batter, and coordinated community response initiatives. A systemic view on the effectiveness of interventions for men who batter is presented here as an antidote to what I consider to be a misguided proclivity by some IPV researchers to approach interventions with men who batter as discrete medical procedures rather than as social policies and practices intended to respond to individual, domestic, and social needs.
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Randomized clinical trial examining the incremental efficacy of a 90-minute motivational alcohol intervention as an adjunct to standard batterer intervention for men.
AIMS The efficacy of batterer intervention programs to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) is questionable, with individuals with alcohol problems particularly unlikely to benefit. We examined whether adding adjunctive alcohol intervention to batterer intervention reduced the likelihood of substance use and violence relative to batterer intervention alone. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial....
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