Over the past year, Northwest Montana has begun making inroads to address domestic violence through a legislative proposal aimed at protecting victims and the addition of three victim advocates in ...
The New York City Council’s Committee on Women and Gender Equity and Committee on the Justice System held a joint hearing on Wednesday to examine the effectiveness of the city’s programs meant to ...
This meta-analysis updates the literature on the effectiveness of batterer intervention programs (BIPs) in decreasing recidivism of domestic violence (DV) by focusing on studies with nontreated ...
For decades, U.S. states have fought male violence against spouses and partners on two fronts: with mandatory arrests and prosecutions, and through programs focused on reeducating men about their ...
The state of Florida requires people convicted of domestic violence to participate in batterers’ intervention programs. The programs have been in place for 30 years, but lawmakers are now looking into ...
Batterers are much less likely to return to abusing their partners if they complete an intervention program required by the courts, according to the California State Auditor, but many of them do not ...
Editor's note: This story is one in a series examining domestic violence in the Flathead Valley. Batterer-intervention programming for domestic violence offenders is a challenge plaguing other rural ...