A new domestic violence program in Texas signals a shift in the treatment of batterers. Increasingly, ex-offenders are leading recent offenders to confront how their own decisions to use violence are ...

Despite efforts to address the issue of domestic violence, this problem remains a major cause of physical and psychological injury to women (Kramer, 2002; Valente, 2002). The causes of domestic ...

People convicted of domestic violence crimes can’t go back and change the moment they reached the breaking point with their significant other. They can, however, go through treatment programs and ...

At the root of most perpetrators’ decisions to abuse are deeply held beliefs about male power and privilege. “The primary drivers are values that they’ve learned growing up about male entitlement and ...

COLUMBIA — Despite its success, a lack of funding has left Columbia's Men Employing Nonviolent Directives program struggling to provide male batterers with services. Ted Solomon, a counselor who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over half of domestic violence offenders on probation fail to complete treatment classes. Lack of monitoring and outdated data undermine Sacramento’s batterer program oversight. Cost barriers and ...

This qualitative descriptive study examined women´s perceptions of a court mandated batterer treatment program that their spouse or partner participated in following arrest for domestic violence.