Recognizing the need for an approach that was geared toward the use of community institutions to intervene actively with assailants and impose legal sanctions against those who batter, the DAIP was developed in Duluth (Minnesota). The project coordinates the intervention of law enforcement, criminal justice, and human service and battered women's advocacy programs to provide comprehensive community intervention to assailants in domestic assault cases. The project was also designed to reduce cultural supports for battering by shifting the responsibility for holding batterers accountable for their use of violence from the victim to community agencies of social control. This project was not designed to change men, but to create safe space for women to live in and participate in their communities. 22 references.