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How Batterer Program Participants Avoid Reassault

NCJ Number
185714
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 6 Issue: 11 Dated: November 2000 Pages: 1204-1222
Author(s)
Edward W. Gondolf
Date Published
November 2000
Length
19 pages
Annotation
An exploratory and descriptive study of men recruited for a multisite batterer treatment program evaluation provided information on how they avoided violence and how their sense of women and being a man had changed.
Abstract
The research gathered information from 443 participants in well-established programs in Dallas, Denver, Houston, and Pittsburgh at each 3-month follow-up interval after intake over a 15-month period. The samples were recruited over a 10-month period in 1995. In addition, another group of 120 men reported 30 months after intake on how their sense of women and being a man had changed. Results revealed that 53 percent of the men reported relying on interruption methods, 19 percent relied on discussion, and 5 percent relied on respect of women at 3 months after intake. These percentages remained constant over the 15-month follow-up period. In addition, one-fifth of the men reported positive changes in their attitudes toward women; more than one third changed to a great extent, according to their female partners. Moreover, men in the longer programs were more likely than the others to use discussion or respect methods and to have changed to a great extent. Figure, tables, and 29 references