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International Survey - perpetrate and
domestic violence The results of the World Health Organization survey on programmes that serve perpetrators of intimate partner violence are being written up in a report. The report should be available in November, 2002. This report will describe 56 programs for perpetrators of intimate partner violence from more than 40 nations, including both developed and developing countries, and propose seven steps for strengthening the international response to batterers. For more information, please contact Emily Rothman Emily
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Survey-perpetrate and domestic violence.pdf
Title: Intervening with perpetrators of intimate partner
violence : a global perspective / Emily F. Rothman, Alexander Butchart,
Magdalena Cerd a.
Authors: Rothman, Emily F.;
Butchart, Alexander.; Cerd a, Magdalena. Corp Author: World Health
Organization. Dept. of Injuries and Violence Prevention. Call No.: HV 6626 2003RO Publisher: Geneva : World
Health Organization, 2003. Description: 40 p. Language: eng.
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Working with Young Men Who Batter: Current Strategies and New
Directions by Dean Peacock & Emily Rothman (November 2001). In Brief: It is widely acknowledged that teen dating violence is a significant
public health problem. Prevention campaigns, victim support groups and
other victim-oriented programs for teenagers have been developed and
evaluated. More recently, researchers and practitioners have gradually
begun to focus on adolescent males who perpetrate dating and family
violence. As a result, juvenile batterer intervention programs have been
developed in several jurisdictions in the United States. The profile of the adolescent male perpetrator of dating violence
suggested by the literature is similar to the profile of other juvenile
offenders. In short, teen boys who abuse their dating partners are more
likely to have experienced child abuse or neglect (McCloskey, Figueredo
& Koss, 1995; Wekerle & Wolfe, 1998; Wolfe, Werkele, Reitzel-Jaffe &
Lefebvre, 1998), witnessed domestic violence (Hotaling & Sugarman,
1986), and to use alcohol or drugs (Cate, Henton, Koval, Christopher &
Lloyd, 1982) than their non-abusive counterparts. In addition, several
studies have established that adolescent males who abuse their dating
partners are more likely to have sexist attitudes that support male
domination over females (Follingstad, Rutledge, McNeil-Harlings & Polek,
1992; Henton, Cate, Koval, Lloyd & Christopher, 1983; Himelein, 1995;
Koss & Dinero, 1989, Koss, Leonard, Beezley & Oros, 1985; Malamuth,
Heavey, Barnes & Acker, 1995; Tontodonato & Crew, 1992) and are more
likely to associate with peers that support these attitudes (Lavoie,
Robitaille & Hebert, 2000; Roscoe & Callahan, 1985). Juvenile batterer intervention programs offer an alternative or
complement to incarceration, and offer possible methods to re-educate
young men about their use of violence. Most juvenile batterer
intervention programs utilize a psycho-educational group format and meet
weekly for 1-2 hours. Intervention group activities may include
discussions of healthy and unhealthy relationships, sex-role
stereotyping, coping with anger or rejection, and the effect of alcohol
or drug use on one’s behavior, among other topics. To our knowledge, no
juvenile batterer intervention program has been formally evaluated. Programs for adolescents who batter currently face a number of
challenges and dilemmas, as do all new interventions. These challenges
include public recognition of teen domestic violence as a phenomenon
distinct from generalized violence; a dearth of culturally appropriate
interventions and research; and partnering with a juvenile justice
system perceived by many to suffer from pervasive racial and class
biases. Some juvenile batterer intervention programs have attempted to
integrate ecological principles into batterer intervention programs.
Common to some of these approaches is the recognition that each
participant serves as an important point of access to the family,
community members, including peers, and institutions such as the faith
community, schools, other community based agencies, the juvenile and
family courts and to youth employment agencies. While significant challenges remain, work being done to detect, deter
and rehabilitate adolescent perpetrators represents an important step
towards interrupting intergenerational cycles of violence and enhancing
safety for battered women and girls. |