Enhancing safety and rehabilitation in intimate violence treatments : New perspectives

摘要: Linda G. Mills, PhD, JD, LCSWa Peggy Grauwiler, Nicole Pezold, MAa Over the last 30 years, safety has been driving concern in developing treatments for intimate violence and significantly shaped systematic responses to this problem. One approach develop coordinated community response models that encourage close collaboration among system service providers offer more comprehensive, wrap-around services better guarantee safety.1 Yet another legally or physically separate batterers from victims. Pro-arrest policies, which were first introduced 1980s, address of female victims by ensuring male are held accountable their offenses separated, at least briefly, victims.2 Restraining no-contact orders also designed victims, while shelter seeks provide women a safe place away home, should they need it. In time, expressed desire treatment programs partners rather than arrest incarceration.3 Courts began referring offenders Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) such as Duluth Model, where treated groups isolation victims.3 This rehabilitation strategy reinforced trend abusive each party’s legal needs individually. Such strategies have almost exclusively perpetrated against females ensure victims’ safety, ignoring fact afflicts both men.4,5 As result, much relevant theory research similarly focused on gendered conception violence. While article reviews answers concerns literature, it underscores well new, inclusive may be applied complex range cases. It is important acknowledge criminal justice often overlook many couples remain inextricably bound variety reasons, regardless intervention divorce.4,5 Despite threat future violence, continued contact during after state interventions.4,6 Although no consistent evidence exists how stay leave, perhaps half persist relationships—and if do shows process