Violence within the family; the role and place of men
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Report published by the Council of Europe following the conference held in Strasbourg 6-7 December 2005 and featuring research form a number of European countries including Germany, Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal and Switzerland amongst others. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 05/03/2008 |
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Does Judicial Monitoring Deter Domestic Violence Recidivism?: Results of a Quasi-Experimental Comparison in the Bronx
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A growing number of courts mandate convicted domestic violence offenders to ongoing judicial monitoring. However, the effectiveness of monitoring has barely been examined with this population. Accordingly, matched samples were created between 387 offenders sentenced to judicial monitoring in the Bronx and 219 otherwise similar offenders whose sentences did not include monitoring. Propensity score matching techniques were used to balance the samples on arrest charges, criminal history, relationship to victim, and other case characteristics. The study found that judicial monitoring failed to reduce the re-arrest rate for any offense, for domestic violence, or for domestic violence with the same victim. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2008 |
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Resistance, Reluctance, and Readiness in Perpetrators of Abuse Against Women and Children
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Perpetrators of abuse and violence against women and children are often reluctant participants in intervention programs. They frequently fail to attend scheduled appointments, are sometimes openly hostile to intervention staff, and often judge program materials as irrelevant to their situation. Recognizing this problem, researchers and practitioners have begun to develop models and tools to more appropriately assess and intervene with reluctant clients. Unfortunately, the resulting proliferation and inconsistent application of terms and theories have led to considerable confusion in characterizing reluctant clients and have significantly hampered research on strategies that may be helpful to better meet the needs of this client group. The purpose of this review is to help standardize the definition and measurement of treatment reluctance as it applies to violence perpetration and to review evidence for the importance of these aspects of client reluctance to intervention. Recommendations for assessing reluctance in research and clinical practice are also provided. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2008 |
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Is Domestic Violence Followed by an Increased Risk of Psychiatric Disorders Among Women But Not Among Men? A Longitudinal Cohort Study
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The association between violence between intimate partners and psychiatric disorders is assumed to reflect a causal link. This assumption is now questioned because several longitudinal studies have documented that adolescents with psychiatric disorders grow up to be overrepresented among adults involved in partner violence. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2008 |
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Development of a Marketing Campaign to Recruit Non-adjudicated and Untreated Abusive Men for a Brief Telephone Intervention
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Although voluntary enrollment by abusive men in
domestic violence perpetrator treatment programs occurs,
most men enter treatment only after they have injured a
partner or family member and have been arrested, convicted
and sentenced. This leaves a serious gap for those who
engage in abusive behavior but who have not been served by
the legal or social service systems. To address this gap, the
researchers applied social marketing principles to recruit
abusive men to a telephone-delivered pre-treatment intervention
(the Men’s Domestic Abuse Check-Up—MDACU),
designed to motivate non-adjudicated and untreated abusive
men who are concurrently using alcohol and drugs to enter
treatment voluntarily. This article discusses recruitment
efforts in reaching perpetrators of intimate partner violence,
an underserved population. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2008 |
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The Men’s Domestic Abuse Check-Up; A Protocol for Reaching The Nonadjudicated and Untreated Man Who Batters & Who Abuses Substances
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Batterer intervention programs primarily work with individuals mandated to participate.
Commonly, attrition is high and outcomes are modest. Motivational enhancement
therapy (MET), most widely studied in the substance abuse field, offers a potentially
effective approach to improving self-referral to treatment, program retention, treatment
compliance, and posttreatment outcomes among men who batter and who abuse substances.
A strategy for using a catalyst variant of MET (a “check-up”) to reach
untreated, nonadjudicated perpetrators is described in detail. Unique challenges in
evaluating the success of this approach are discussed, including attending to victim
safety and determining indicators of increased motivation for change. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2008 |
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Inter-parental conflict and children’s academic attainment; a longitudinal analysis
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Previous research suggests a link between inter-parental conflict and children’s
psychological development. Most studies, however, have tended to focus on two broad indices of
children’s psychological adaptation (internalizing symptoms and externalizing problems) in considering
the effects of inter-parental conflict on children’s development. The present longitudinal study extends
this body of research by considering the impact of inter-parental conflict on children’s low
academic attainment among a sample of 230 schoolchildren (age 11–13 years) living in the United Kingdom. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 10/03/2007 |
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Male Sexual Abuse Survivors Struggle in Relations With Health Care Providers
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Canadian researchers have found that although both male and female childhood sexual
survivors have similar anxieties and fears about their encounters with health care
professionals, there are gender based differences concerning perceptions of victimhood,
guilt, shame, homophobia and vulnerability |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 01/11/2007 |
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Gender Statistics; An Evaluation
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Written by Esther Breitenbach, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh and published in 2006 by the Equal Opportunities Commission. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 02/10/2007 |
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Comparing Domestic Abuse in Same Sex and Heterosexual Relationships
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Written by Donovan, Hester, Holmes & McCarry and was published in November 2006.
This report outlines initial findings from the most detailed UK research on same sex domestic abuse and first study in the UK to directly compare domestic abuse in same sex and heterosexual relationships. The research sought to increase knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse in
same sex relationships and experiences of help-seeking via the criminal justice system and other agencies. It also aimed to examine similarities and differences regarding domestic abuse across same sex and heterosexual relationships, including how ‘narratives of love’ might be used across these contexts to make sense of violence in intimate relationships. |
| Source: Mens Advice Line |
| Article Date: 08/10/2007 |
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